From db239386952c0c7a1bd1cd194b9449ee159e56ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:23:12 +0200 Subject: Draft release announcement 2014.04 --- docs/announce/2014.04 | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2014.04 (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/announce/2014.04 b/docs/announce/2014.04 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4b5d51 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2014.04 @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +# 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 March 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 2014 release is +available from . 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 experimental support for +the JVM and MoarVM backend. + +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 2014.03] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 6.1.0 of the [Parrot Virtual +Machine], version 2014.04 of the [MoarVM], plus various modules, +documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. + +[release 2014.03]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.03.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 +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 . + +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