Everyone wants those things, like everyone wants a good job, a nice house, freedom, and pie.

My business needs specific things, like the ability to parse PseudoPOD documents to emit XHTML or LaTeX. I don't care if Perl 6 lacks an ODBC driver or an OpenID library because I don't need them. Rakudo doesn't have to be as fast as Perl 6 for the kinds of work I use it for either; it has to be able to process a novel-length book in a minute. If you're doing exchange trading, your speed goal may be very different.

That's what I mean by "specifics".

There is a definite set of specifics that will matter to a large number of businesses e.g.
• a MySQL driver
• parsers and generators for XML and JSON
• a web application framework
• a logging framework
• a socket framework
• an HTTP client
• documentation
(in addition to these my business would need clients for FTP and NNTP)

I think it's not unreasonable to equate the readiness of Perl 6 with the availability of such specifics (certainly myself and many others won't be able consider Perl 6 as a viable development platform until such items are available).

Let's see what we've got today:

• minidbi includes a mysql driver
• json parser and writer, xml parser, xml writer
• a web application framework
• logging framework - still missing, to the best of my knowledge
• socket support comes with Rakudo (don't know what exactly what you need a framework for... if it's event based IO, that's still missing).
• an HTTP client
• documentation

Have fun exploring!

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