Rakudo * aka Rakudo Star aka Rakudo Whatever is pivotal release of Rakudo, that is planned for Q2 2010. Its primary purpose is to be a robust demonstration of how much Perl 6 can be used today. It is hoped that a lot of feedback will come from that, which will improve the implementation and the language. In addition, it is hoped it will attract new developers.

The star is a hint toward the Perl 6 operator called whatever (see WITCH star), meaning this release is not optimized for completness, but for stability. To almost quote Patrick Michaud, who came up with this idea at YAPC::EU in Lissabon: "whatever will be there in spring 2010, will be released".

While the original release plan was for late April 2010, a family crisis for Patrick Michaud has understandably taken up much of his attention. The release date has changed slightly from a solid April 2010 until sometime in the second quarter of 2010.

"Rakudo Star" was released on 29 July 2010. See some of the Press it got: Rakudo Star Press

A lot of perl6 modules and applications writing nowadays, this is attempt to make its list. Update it, plz. when your start yet another perl6 module!

Perl6::Literate

"Literate programming (� la Haskell) in Perl 6"

see real usage example

Vector.pm

"This is a simple attempt to create a working Vector class. I initially set out
to support 3D vectors, but it turned out to be easier to support vectors of
any dimension."

Status: active

November

"A wiki engine written in Perl"

Status: active

Pun

"For all the things it doesn't mean, pun gives you the -p and -n flags before
they exist in Rakudo. It's two simple wrappers that simulate those flags."

Status: done

Proto

"A a hyper-lightweight dependency tracking and project installation system."

Status: active

CSV

"Simple CSV (comma-separated values) format parser for Perl 6."

Druid

"A connection-oriented board game written in Perl 6"

SVG.pm

"SVG is a module for creating Scalable Vector Graphics in Perl 6."

Tufte

"Tufte is a port of the "scruffy" plotting library for Perl 6."

SVG::Plot.pm

"SVG::Plot is a simple 2D bar chart plotter for Perl 6."

SVG::MatchDumper

"SVG visualization for Perl 6 match objects"

JSON::Tiny.pm

"An initial Perl 6 grammar for JSON."

Web.pm

"Lightweight Perl 6 framework for web applications. Work-name is Web.pm."

Hitomi.pm, Astair.pm, Vipre.pm, HTML::Entities.pm lives here.

Status: active.

URI.pm

"Perl6 realization of URI — Uniform Resource Identifiers handler
It is can only parse URI for now, and provide some methods to it`s parts."

Forked by Ronald Schmidt

Status: suspend (both).

Just some general information for hacking on the PIR code behind Rakudo

Method Organization in Files:

1. Methods
2. Operators
3. Coercions
4. Private methods
5. Vtable functions

Source

When do you use !EXPORT?

If the method is "is export" in S29, we use !EXPORT
If there is a separate sub, then we put that sub into .namespace [] and don't !EXPORT the method
The reason is that grep { ... }, @list is different from @list.grep { ... }
Source

Misc

• .tailcall '!FAIL'('reason') is the PIR equivalent of Perl 6's fail() function.
• basically any time we have = new 'Undef' it definitely needs to be converted to 'undef'() or something similar.

The Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler ("rakudo" for short) targets the Parrot Virtual Machine, and it currently lives on github. Its developed by Patrick Michaud (pmichaud - lead developer), Jonathan Worthington (jnthn), Stephen Weeks and others, mostly using NQP. It will most likely become the "official" Perl 6.0 release.

To build the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, follow the instructions on the official homepage.
Parrot and Rakudo change rapidly; if you have issues with the latest point release, be sure to try svn/git-latest of parrot/rakudo.

• rakudo feature status
• Roadmap

Also check out Getting Involved to learn about how to help with development, and see A Guide to the Pugs Repository for Rakudo Hackers.