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Rakudo Star Perl 6 Mac Binaries Now Available

posted by on Monday February 15 2016, @09:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the digging-through-the-oysters dept.

stmuk writes:

Perl 6 was officially released in source form for the Rakudo compiler on Christmas Day 2015 as promised in the old "ready by Christmas" joke. But for most people the most usable form is Rakudo Star (which includes docs and some batteries in the shape of library modules) and this was released earlier in this month.

Yesterday the first Mac installer was released alongside the existing Windows MSI. UNIX users can install from the rakudo-star-2016.01.tar.gz source tarball.

Full details at http://www.perl6.org/downloads/

So now is a good time to try out this radical new reboot of perl into a different but related language if you are interested in programming languages. The classic version (perl 5) powers Soylentnews and is, of course, still widely used.

There are some nice examples at the homepage http://www.perl6.org/

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 15 2016, @10:29AM

    by c0lo (156) on Monday February 15 2016, @10:29AM (#304549) Journal
    Hang on a bit. You mean... they released Perl# or Perl dotNET? Or something like that?
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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 15 2016, @12:25PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 15 2016, @12:25PM (#304594) Homepage Journal

    Something like, yep.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @12:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @12:41PM (#304602)
      Cool. Now I can code in Java while programming in Perl6.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:17PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:17PM (#304712)

        To be fair, you always could [metacpan.org].

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:27PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:27PM (#304717)

          oops, just noticed you said Perl6 and I linked to a Perl5 thing. Nevermind.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:36PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:36PM (#304728)

            Now the question is: Do we raise an exception? Or do we push a "cleanup" function reference into the reclamation stack which reports an error?

            There's always more than one way to do everything in Perl.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:25PM (#304716)

    There's Niecza [github.com] which is a Perl 6 compiler written in C# that targets Microsoft's CLR. Sadly, it doesn't look like an active project anymore. I use PowerShell on some servers at work and it'll let you use C# code and classes in PowerShell scripts. I'd love to be able to do the same thing with Perl 6 from within PowerShell.