in reply to Re^8: Perl 6: Managing breakages across Rakudo versions
in thread Perl 6: Managing breakages across Rakudo Star versions
I agree.
I speak only for myself here as someone who gets paid to write Perl code.
Just give me a Perl6 implementation i can depend on. I need to start writing scripts and modules and ditribute them on CPAN. And i need some reasonable guarantees that i don't have to do major rewrites every few months just to keep my code working.
Rakudo doesn't have to be "feature complete" or be "highly optimized". To attract developers (who may write Perl code for a living), it needs to be stable enough that it's worth the (company) time to start writing code for it that it more complex than "Hello World" and more useful than self-test scripts.
Stop breaking things because you "need to optimize". Frankly, unless Perl6 gets at least one stable, extensible Interpreter (e.g. not major rewrites every time you feel like it), there won't be a big community writing actual, useful code for it that starts to attract even more developers. Ergo it wont run any code that needs an optimized interpreter...
Really, give me something i can show to my boss as a reasonable good choice to implement software with that will run for years, maybe a decade.
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Re^10: Perl 6: Managing breakages across Rakudo versions
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 17, 2012 at 17:22 UTC | |
by raiph (Deacon) on Jul 18, 2012 at 20:28 UTC | |
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 18, 2012 at 22:07 UTC | |
by raiph (Deacon) on Jul 19, 2012 at 16:50 UTC | |
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 19, 2012 at 17:37 UTC | |
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by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 18, 2012 at 20:35 UTC |