[Kc] perl 6 progress

[djgoku]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Moore <amoore at mooresystems.com> wrote:
> Here's some perl 6, parrot, and rakudo news for you:
>
> As I mentioned earlier this month, Parrot 1.0 is apparently due out
> March 17: <http://www.parrot.org/news/vision-for-1_0>. The February
> release of Parrot alluded to this milestone with its "Final Countdown"
> name: <http://www.parrot.org/news/2009/Parrot-0.9.1>. The
> stabilization of parrot is great news for perl 6 fans. (wake up,
> people!)
>
> Parrot 1.0 is expected to be the first stable release of the virtual
> machine that you can use to build languages on top of. Of course, one
> language being built on Parrot is Rakudo, an implementation of perl 6.
> Rakudo development recently became a little more separated from Parrot
> development, now having its own source repository. So, this month's
> Rakudo release is the first one that's separated from a Parrot release
> <http://perlbuzz.com/2009/02/perl-6-stretches-its-wings-makes-a-milestone-release.html>.
> Each month's release of
> Rakudo is getting tons better than the previous month. You can write
> pretty complex programs in perl 6 using Rakudo these days. With Parrot
> stabilized, I'm betting that Rakudo development will continue to get
> closer to having a usable, stable language soon. Maybe even by
> Christmas. They could use your help, though, so if you feel like
> playing with perl 6, perhaps you can lend the Rakudo development team
> a hand.

During the hackathon at #FP. Many were following this guide to build:

http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/where-rakudo-lives.writeback

Jonathan