Re^10: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?

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".

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Re^11: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Arunbear (Prior) on Sep 25, 2010 at 11:39 UTC
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).	[reply]
Re^12: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 25, 2010 at 13:48 UTC
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! Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply]