in reply to If Parrot comes, can Rakudo be far behind?

Rakudo has no fixed schedule, so no predictions here.

I don't believe we'll see a "Rakudo 1.0" release this year, simply because too many subsystems are still missing: concurrency, IO, Unicode layers, feeds, macros, user defined operators - you name it.

That said, Rakudo is getting more usable every week, and as you can see on this chart it makes steady progress in the test suite. Some time ago I analyzed that passes 23 new tests per day, on average. Yesterday it passed 7227 tests.

Currently there are approximately 18000 tests in the test suite. At the current rate it would pass these in one year and four months.

However the current test suite doesn't cover all of Perl 6, and more tests are needed. So don't think Rakudo will be done when it passes 18k tests.

Of course this rate could change drastically if we had one or more frequent contributor. Currently most of the grunt work is done by two people, pmichaud and jnthn. Having one or two more core developers would make quite a difference.

(And do keep in mind that these are just number games: Usually the easy tests are passed first, and the hard ones take more time; so the amount of work to get new tests passing can actually increase over time).

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Re^2: If Parrot comes, can Rakudo be far behind?
by xiaoyafeng (Deacon) on Mar 19, 2009 at 09:46 UTC

    What a pity! Our company will be kicking off a new project on 2010. I had hoped to do my part in perl6.

    Besides, I feel I fall in a little bit embarrassed situation. perl6 is much different with perl5. You can find a great many of P5 modules on CPAN, but perl5's grammar of OO taste not good(for other programmers); perl6's grammar is elegant, exuberant, and also TMTOWTDI, but Rakudo is not mature enough. Which one should I corrage my colleagues and friends to learn?

    I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction

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      If you want it come out faster, you can always contribute.

      If you don't like Perl 5's OO system, maybe Moose is something for you? It's inspired by Perl 6's OO system.

      Grammars are a killer application indeed, but they still need some more work in Rakudo.

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        For me, perl5's OO is never a problem. And I'm happy to find that bless is still in perl6.

        But my question is when, not what. If possible, I certainly want to introduce perl6 to my friends instead of perl5 (think of meta-op, feed, new regex grammar.... Compared to perl5, many ideas deserve Wow!)

        so, Does rakudo team prefer to developing some parts such as IO, concurrcy or regex so that people can write more useful codes in perl6?

        Sorry for my so many questions on perl6. I can't connect to IRC for safe policy of coperation. :(

        I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction

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