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-Announce: Rakudo Star - 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 September 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl". The September 2010 Star release includes release #33
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.8.0 of the Parrot
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
- * Several performance improvements have been implemented;
- notably in the slurp() and reverse() functions
- * The series operator has been refactored and updated to the current
- specification
- * Temporal objects (DateTime, Date, Instant, and Duration) are now
- completely implemented
- * Enumeration objects now conform much closer to the specification
- * 'now' and 'time' are now terms instead of functions. This means
- you can write 'time - 1' and it will do what you mean, but
- 'time()' is no longer valid.
- * The Perl 6 specification tests [3] are now included in the distribution.
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
- * nested package definitions
- * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
- * typed arrays
- * macros
- * state variables
- * threads and concurrency
- * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
- * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
- * interactive readline that understands Unicode
- * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
- * non-blocking I/O
- * most of Synopsis 9
- * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-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.
-
-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.
-An updated 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.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned
-release of Rakudo Star will be on October 26, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
-[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast