niecza

A Perl 6 compiler targetting the CLR with an experimental focus on optimizations.

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A Perl 6 compiler targetting the CLR with an experimental focus on optimizations.

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Observed mentions: 2010-07-20 00:24:27 UTC to 2011-06-27 19:52:46 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Jul 2010	2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Aug 2010	2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2010	2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2010	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 2010	2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2010	2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 2011	2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2011	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2011	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 2011	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2011	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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perlgeek·Jun 27, 2011

Rakudo is by no means more official than any other implementation (for example currently niecza is quite strong, see https://github.com/sorear/niecza/ for the code). Renaming Perl 6 to Rakudo makes about as much sense as renaming C to GCC to MSVC. Rakudo, while a nice name, is also too easy to mistype - even core committers (me included) have frequently misspelled its name in commit messages etc.

In Lets just drop the 5 from Perl 5

ekiru·Jul 20, 2010

If so, I guess we're not going to get Perl 6 after all. After all, all the existing implementations have adopted strategies of getting some features working then getting more. It certainly looked to be working pretty well. I mean, in the last month, I've used grammars, feeds, hyper-ops, lazy lists, and many of the other cool features Rakudo has already implemented. I mean, feeds seriously got added last night. Any project still adding wonderful features like feeds after 30 public releases can't have much hope, if developing Perl 6 requires implementing every feature addition at once. And the other implementations have it even worse... How am I going to tell sorear that, despite probably averaging over a dozen commits to Niecza[0] each day since the beginning of the month, and the incredible progress he's been making with it, he's doomed b

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ecause he isn't trying to implementing everything all at one? Joking aside, no one's trying to implement every feature of Perl 6 at once. The developers of the various Perl 6 implementations are trying to implement feature after feature. Sure, some of them are so productive that the Perl 6 implementation on which their brains run must have implemented auto-threading, but even they aren't trying to implement everything before they make a release. Rakudo's 31st compiler release is this Thursday; and Rakudo [1] is coming out the 29th. Pugs[2] has had quite a few releases. Pawel Murias just released Mildew[3] and STD.pm[4] on CPAN. Rakudo , for example, isn't going to have all of Perl 6 implemented; but it has quite a bit, and that quite a bit includes some great things, some of which no one else is even trying to do. [0] http://github.com/sorear/niecza/commits/master [1] http://rakudo.org/node/73 [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Pugs [3] http://search.cpan.org/~pmurias/Mildew-0.03/ [4] http://search.cpan.org/~pmurias/STD-0.02/

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