Asking about a Perl 6 release date will just get you defensive responses from the Perl 6 folks, if that's any indication.

How is it defensive? Here are two truths:

1) Rakudo has had two years of monthly releases. The next release date is always the Thursday after the third Tuesday of the month.

2) Rakudo is ready for you to use when you decide it's ready for you to use. No one else can decide that for you. Certainly we're not going to pretend we know the specifics of your business or hobby use. All we can do is make every monthly release better than the previous release.

Perl 6 supporters is not helping Perl's reputation by all their defensive, misconstruing complaints about outsiders.

I care not one whit for insiders versus outsiders versus people of indeterminate position. I care about explaining my goals and motivations correctly and accurately and correcting misconceptions of those goals and motivations appropriately.

If you want to understand if Perl 5 will go into maintenance mode, I think the answer is NO.

That's only true because Perl 5 has effectively been in maintenance mode for several years. A better question is "Will Perl 5 come out of maintenance mode?"

In reply to Re^2: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by chromatic
in thread Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by aecooper

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