... can you see at all how so many postings regarding Perl 6 re completion|release dates|features can be a little hard to grok?

As I write almost every day, we release a new version of Rakudo Perl 6 every month, like we've done for the past two years. You can use it right now. It exists. You can write real code with it.

Should you use it for your project? I can't answer that. I don't know what your project is.

Should you use it for your business? I can't answer that. I don't know what your business does, how you manage developers, what experience you have, or your level of comfort and risk tolerance.

You may believe that freezing the specification, concentrating all volunteer time and effort, and ignoring everything else until there's a tarball named perl6.0.0.tar.gz will answer both of those questions affirmatively for most people. We don't, and we don't manage the project that way.

This is software, developed by a passionate and curious community. There is no "done".

In reply to Re^4: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by chromatic
in thread Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by aecooper

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