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Ignore the semantic games other responses play. If you're asking "Has anyone released an implementation of Perl 6 that's suitable for everyday use by someone who isn't interested in developing Perl 6 itself?", the answer is no.


Out of curiosity, did you finally give Niecza a try or are you still ignoring it out of opposition to anything .NET?

I do not (only) ask to be a smart mouth -- I'm genuinely interested in how it rates on your personal scale of production-readiness...


I haven't used it, primarily due to the risks involved in using Mono for business purposes. (I have no interest in discussing this.)

My latest understanding is that it's still a single-developer project with better performance on many benchmarks than Rakudo but much worse startup time and significant feature overlap. It has monthly releases but makes no promises of stability or usability across releases.

Again, I haven't used it myself.


On the positive side, when that implementation of Perl 6 does arrive, it will be delivered to you by flying car free of charge.


I asked the same question about a year and half ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808568

At that time, you weren't so "perl 6 is not ready" camp. What changed?


It didn't get any readier in the meantime. If anything, it regressed.




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