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author | jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net> | 2014-05-02 22:17:32 +0200 |
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committer | jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net> | 2014-05-02 22:17:32 +0200 |
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diff --git a/docs/announce/2014.04 b/docs/announce/2014.04 deleted file mode 100644 index 779ebe6..0000000 --- a/docs/announce/2014.04 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ -# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2014.04 - -## 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 April 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 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. - -This is the first Rakudo Star release with support for the MoarVM -backend (all module tests pass on supported platforms) along with -experimental support for the JVM backend (some module tests fail). - -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 2014.04] of the -[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 6.1.0 of the [Parrot Virtual -Machine], version 2014.04 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, -documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 -community. - -[release 2014.04]: - https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.04.md -[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[Parrot Virtual Machine]: http://parrot.org -[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ - -Some of the new features added to this release include: - -* experimental support for the JVM and MoarVM backends -* NativeCall passes all its tests on all backends -* S17 (concurrency) now in MoarVM (except timing related features) -* winner { more @channels { ... } } now works -* implemented univals(), .unival and .univals (on MoarVM) -* added .minpairs/.maxpairs on (Set|Bag|Mix)Hash -* Naive implementation of "is cached" trait on Routines - -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 and MoarVM 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. |