Caveat Emptor.
From the blurb for this book:
"Gain the skills to begin developing Perl 6 applications from the ground up ..."
But from the perl6.org website today, May 9:
"Please read the advance notice blog post on potential breaking changes coming mid-April"
And from a Reddit post one week ago by a Perl Foundation-funded "Perl6" developer describing the drawbacks of his product:
- Tiny ecosystem full of abandoned modules
- Slow
- Buggy
- Some stuff still gets changed around, so you may need to tweak your code to work on latest-and-greatest version once in a while
- No mature modules for common tasks; your options are to roll your own, use works in progress, or use Perl 5's modules via Inline::Perl5 and pray it works.
- Language has been stable for just over 1 year, so chances of someone explicitly looking to hire Perl 6 programmers are slim to none
What a joke. Talk about all sizzle and no steak!
The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
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