rakudo.org— Perl 6 running on the Parrot VM has always had a clunky name: "Perl 6 on Parrot". Now, Patrick Michaud, the pumpking for the project, has announced the new name: Rakudo. Read about it at the new rakudo.org.
Jan 17, 2008View in Crawl 4
Perl 6 sucks. You know why? It's just such a mess. You would think that perl people have been working on Perl 6 all these years, right? Wrong! They've been working on a virtual machine called Parrot. Now where's a perl 6 implementation? There isn't a single one, but a whole bunch. They are all in different stages of completion. Mostly incomplete. For a while there wasn't even a perl compiler that could produce a parrot executable. Pugs was the most complete implementation of Perl 6. But it's an interpreter written in Haskell. I tried it couple of times and I couldn't compile anything to parrot bytecode. So it's a joke. You can play with it, but you can't use it for anything serious. Now, instead of writing a parrot bytecode generator those guys started to write a compiler to JavaScript! To freaking JavaScript! It's insane! Rakudo may be able to produce parrot bytecode. But I don't care anymore. It's unlikely to be any close to completion to make me interested again. Hey, try to even find a decent source of information on Perl 6! Planet Perl Six is a joke. Besides being unreadable in IE, it's just a collection of blogs written by and for perl/parrot implementers. Perl 6 site is even a bigger joke. Now listen to this - I don't give a damn how stuff is implemented. Why don't you post a list of what works and what doesn't, feature by feature. And maintain a little open source book like "Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials" and keep it up to date with your ever-chaning Perl 6 features. I loved that book. At least it gives a good overview of the language. Something those useless sites never had.I may seem incoherent, but I'm just an outsider guy who's trying to get to know this wonderful language, but who's stumbling on a bunch of obstacles and severe lack of information.
The reason it took so long to get this far--making Rakudo--is because noone has gotten far enough in their personal parrot-p6 project to name and publicize it. By my guess, some of the people who before aimlessly coded away at their own project will now take a look at Rakudo.
proclusJan 18, 2008
Perl 6, the language, development gaining momentum
alexeizJan 21, 2008
Perl 6 sucks. You know why? It's just such a mess. You would think that perl people have been working on Perl 6 all these years, right? Wrong! They've been working on a virtual machine called Parrot. Now where's a perl 6 implementation? There isn't a single one, but a whole bunch. They are all in different stages of completion. Mostly incomplete. For a while there wasn't even a perl compiler that could produce a parrot executable. Pugs was the most complete implementation of Perl 6. But it's an interpreter written in Haskell. I tried it couple of times and I couldn't compile anything to parrot bytecode. So it's a joke. You can play with it, but you can't use it for anything serious. Now, instead of writing a parrot bytecode generator those guys started to write a compiler to JavaScript! To freaking JavaScript! It's insane! Rakudo may be able to produce parrot bytecode. But I don't care anymore. It's unlikely to be any close to completion to make me interested again. Hey, try to even find a decent source of information on Perl 6! Planet Perl Six is a joke. Besides being unreadable in IE, it's just a collection of blogs written by and for perl/parrot implementers. Perl 6 site is even a bigger joke. Now listen to this - I don't give a damn how stuff is implemented. Why don't you post a list of what works and what doesn't, feature by feature. And maintain a little open source book like "Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials" and keep it up to date with your ever-chaning Perl 6 features. I loved that book. At least it gives a good overview of the language. Something those useless sites never had.I may seem incoherent, but I'm just an outsider guy who's trying to get to know this wonderful language, but who's stumbling on a bunch of obstacles and severe lack of information.
alhirzelJan 21, 2008
The reason it took so long to get this far--making Rakudo--is because noone has gotten far enough in their personal parrot-p6 project to name and publicize it. By my guess, some of the people who before aimlessly coded away at their own project will now take a look at Rakudo.