From 15fa3b1276162b76ca16aa6742c67923581c78f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 08:07:40 +0200 Subject: Add 2015.07 announcement draft --- docs/announce/2015.07.md | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2015.07.md diff --git a/docs/announce/2015.07.md b/docs/announce/2015.07.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91b6aea --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2015.07.md @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.07 + +## 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 July 2015 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2015 release is +available from . + +This Rakudo Star release comes with support for the MoarVM +backend (all module tests pass on supported platforms). + +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 2015.07.2] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 2015.07 of [MoarVM], plus various +modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the +Perl 6 community. + +[release 2015.07]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2015.07.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ + +Some of the new compiler features added to this release include: + +* Cool.substr(-rw) and &substr(-rw) now also accept a Range +* Added trait "is required" on class attributes +* &?ROUTINE and &?BLOCK +* &words implemented (to completement .words) +* Numeric comparison ops (== > etc) for DateTimes +* samewith() now also works in subs +* Calling the .clone method with alternate values no longer changes original +* .grep and &grep now consume multiple elements for many-param blocks +* ENTER phaser now can be used as an r-value + +Notable changes in modules in modules: + +* Bailador: Add links to documentation +* DBIish: Use Postgres environment variables for test configuration +* doc: More documentation, mostly for IO-related classes and methods + +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 + * non-blocking I/O (in progress) + * much of Synopsis 9 and 11 + +There is an online resource at +that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo's +backends 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 . + +See 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 +, ask on the +mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- cgit v1.1