I’ve been messing around with it lately. Not production or even pre-production ready for the risk averse but certainly fun and something I would put into a small personal project at this point; I even had a candidate but it wasn’t small enough and the lack of a comprehensive 6PAN shot it down. The huge drawback for me before was speed. It’s not super fast now but it does some things faster than 5 and the things it doesn’t aren’t factors of ten slower anymore.
https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew + panda (instructions on same page) make it easy to play with now. All critiques and disappointing timelines aside, it’s fun and I do think now is the time to consider early ecosystem work as Tux has; all ++s to you and your extremely helpful code. I encourage everyone to do it on github. The more open and easy, the faster things can be done.
For the gainsayers: doing new things, even things that fail, can be edifying. I repeat something I’ve said before. Most of my chops were not acquired on the clock but at home on long nights and weekends.
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