I expect that the reaction from most of the HN community will be somewhat similar to "why use perl these days when there are so many other more modern choices," but reading the spec there are a lot of nice things in perl6, including the static type system, macro support, and improved patter matching. The syntax still feels a little antiquated, but there is an awful lot to like in this new release, and i expect that so very expressive, not overly opaque code will be written using this.
I don't think he's saying that it is ready for production just yet. I don't want to piss on this parade, it's certainly a milestone, but there are problems too.
Previous discussion:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786423" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10786423</a>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787764" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787764</a>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788786" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788786</a>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789464" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789464</a><p>Please look and see if there's already a recent thread, everyone. Also, this wasn't the production-readiness announcement, this is an essay on the end of the long Advent, and hopes for the future.<p>That said: yeah, it's happening today.
I'm excited by this, although I feel that the announcement a couple months back about it being released this Christmas carried all the release hype with it haha. I'm glad 6.Christmas is packaged and shipped. Have fun and happy holidays everyone.
Perl6 seems like a fantastic language, but one of the things I'm most interested to see how turn out is the way it is being branded for tweenage girls.<p>NOTE TO DOWNVOTERS: This is not a joke. E.g., <a href="http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-unveiled-perl-6/" rel="nofollow">http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-...</a> "the new butterfly logo for Perl 6 'is specifically designed, among other things, to appeal to 7-year-old girls. The Python community has done a much better job appealing to kids with fun stuff.'"