Perl 6

Welcome to Perl 6

Hi, my name is Camelia. I'm the spokesbug for Perl 6, the spunky little sister of Perl 5. Like her world-famous big sister, Perl 6 intends to carry forward the high ideals of the Perl community. Perl 6 is currently being developed by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. You can help too. The only requirement is that you know how to be nice to all kinds of people (and butterflies). Go to #perl6 (irc.freenode.net) and someone will be glad to help you get started.

Community

#perl6 IRC channel: system IRC client or chat live in your browser
Perl 6 Advent Calendar
#perl6 channel logs

»MORE«

Specification

Synopsis - official Perl 6 design documents
STD.pm - official Perl 6 grammar

»MORE«

Compilers

Rakudo, a compiler based on Parrot.
viv, a STD-based reference parser used by various other compilers

»MORE«

Documentation

u4x, User-level documentation for Christmas
Perl 5 to 6, introduction for Perl 5 programmers

»MORE«

Whatever

proto, makes it easy to install programs written in Perl 6
Inline::Rakudo, embedding Perl 6 code in Perl 5

»MORE«