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fliptop [soylentnews.org] writes:

It's been 15 years in the making. Unveiled in October [soylentnews.org], Perl 6 has been officially released [wordpress.com]:

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm proud to announce the Christmas release (December 2015) of Rakudo Perl 6 #94 "коледа". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine [moarvm.org].

[...] Together, we've built a language that:

• Retains the core values of Perl: expressiveness, getting the job done, taking influences from natural language, and pushing the boundaries of language design
• Has clean, modern syntax, rooted in familiar constructs but revisiting and revising the things that needed it

[...] While we are extremely happy to ship an official Perl 6 release, this is not the end of Rakudo's development. We will continue to ship monthly releases, which will continue to improve performance and our users experience. We'll also continue our work on the specification, with feedback from the community.

Related: Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar [soylentnews.org]

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