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author | Tadeusz Sośnierz <tadzikes@gmail.com> | 2014-01-31 16:08:37 +0100 |
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committer | Tadeusz Sośnierz <tadzikes@gmail.com> | 2014-01-31 16:08:37 +0100 |
commit | ebaa7e541b216b033af5c459473f4a2908af07fd (patch) | |
tree | ab369fad04a195241d05cd2d71d6d81ae4d219f1 | |
parent | 35aca2dd193cde4b94853e2291252ed60ed60d34 (diff) |
Add the new release announcement
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diff --git a/docs/announce/2014.01.md b/docs/announce/2014.01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42dab5f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2014.01.md @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2014.01 + +## A useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 + +On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to +announce the January 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2014 release is +available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. A Windows .MSI +version of Rakudo star will usually appear in the downloads area +shortly after the tarball release. + +In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language +("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as +"Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes [release 2014.01] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 5.9.0 of the [Parrot Virtual +Machine], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources +collected from the Perl 6 community. + +[release 2014.01]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.01.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[Parrot Virtual Machine]: http://parrot.org + +Some of the new features added to this release include: + ++ The eval sub and method are now spelled EVAL ++ Numeric.narrow to coerce to narrowest type possible ++ Can now supply blocks with multiple arguments as sequence endpoints ++ Method calls and hash/list access on Nil give Nil + +This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error +reporting and better failure modes. + +Please note that this release of Rakudo Star does not support the JVM +nor the MoarVM backends from the Rakudo compiler. While the other backends +mostly implement the same features as the Parrot backend, many bits are +still missing, most prominently the native call interface. +We hope to provide a JVM-based and MoarVM-based Rakudo Star releases soon. + +There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet +handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. +Some of the not-quite-there features include: + + * advanced macros + * threads and concurrency (in work for the JVM backend) + * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints + * interactive readline that understands Unicode + * non-blocking I/O + * much of Synopsis 9 and 11 + +There is an online resource at <http://perl6.org/compilers/features> +that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo and +other Perl 6 implementations. + +In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the +programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many +that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are +welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>. + +See <http://perl6.org/> for links to much more information about +Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference +materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. A +draft of a Perl 6 book is available as docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf in +the release tarball. + +The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for +making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see +<http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the <perl6-compiler@perl.org> +mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. |