Awesome Perl 6

Useful resources for the Perl 6 programming language

⚠️ Perl 6 will be renamed to Raku (see here). Hence, this repository has been replaced by awesome-raku. ⚠️

Perl 6, also called Raku, is a multi-paradigm language with exceptional string-processing support. It is not a new version of Perl 5. Instead, it is regarded as a new member of the Perl family breaking compatibility with its older sister language. Among many improvements, the string-processing capabilities of Perl 6 were brought to a higher level by adding so-called grammars to the language.

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Contents

• Introduction
  • Overview
  • First Steps
  • Sample Code
  • Learning
  • Official Resources
• Community
• People
• Information
  • Blogs
  • Perl 6 Grammars
  • Perl 6 vs. Perl 5
  • Perl 6 for Converts
  • Interaction
  • Videos
• Modules
  • Installation
  • Development
  • Catalogue
• Tools
  • Compilers
  • Editors

Introduction

Overview

• Perl 6 - Official website.
• Wikipedia - Wikipedia entry about Perl 6.

First Steps

• Getting Started - First steps with Perl 6.
• Why Perl 6? - Reasons for learning and using Perl 6.
• REPL - Try Perl 6 in your browser.
• Cheat Sheet - Perl 6 cheat sheet.
• Operators - Comprehensive list of Perl 6 operators.
• Style Guide - Suggestions about formatting Perl 6 code.

Sample Code

• Example Code - Introductory code examples.
• Rosetta Code - Perl 6 on Rosetta Code.

Learning

• Books - List of published Perl 6 books with a flow chart.
• Wikibook - Open-content textbook on Perl 6.
• Perl 6 Introduction - Introduction to Perl 6 in several languages.
• Learn Perl 6 in Y minutes - List of common operations in Perl 6.
• Exercism.io - Programming exercises for Perl 6.
• Golfing - List of tips for code golf with Perl 6.

Official Resources

• Documentation - Language, type and routine reference.
• FAQ - Frequently asked questions.
• Glossary - List of terms related to Perl 6.
• Specification - Description of the language design.
• Resources - Official collection of resources.
• Whatever - Miscellaneous related things: Tools, merchandising and more.

Community

• IRC - IRC channel.
• IRC Bots - Description of #perl6 IRC bots.
• Mailing Lists - Links to several mailing lists.
• reddit - Perl 6 subreddit.
• Stack Overflow - Perl 6 tag on Stack Overflow.
• Twitter - News and posts about Perl 6 and its community.

People

• Larry Wall - Designer of Perl.
• Zoffix Znet - Core developer.

Information

Blogs

• Blog Posts - Aggregation of blog posts about Perl 6.
• Advent Calendar - Yearly blog post series about Perl 6.
• Perl 6 Weekly - Weekly summary of Perl 6 community activity.

Perl 6 Grammars

• Documenation - Documentation for grammars.
• Tutorial - Introduction to grammars.
• Book - Extract from a book on Perl 6 grammars.
• Example I - Parsing Wikipedia infoboxes with grammars.
• Example II - Debugging of complex grammars.

Perl 6 vs. Perl 5

• Perl 6 in a Nutshell - Pitfalls for Perl 5 programmers.
• Perl 5 to Perl 6 - Collection of blog posts about the changes from Perl 5 to Perl 6.

Perl 6 for Converts

• Haskell - Introduction for Haskell programmers.
• Python - Introduction for Python programmers.
• Ruby - Introduction for Ruby programmers.

Interaction

• Inline::Perl5 - Use Perl 5 in Perl 6.
• Inline::Perl6 - Use Perl 6 in Perl 5.

Videos

• Perl 6 - Talk about Perl 6 at FOSDEM 2016.
• Talks - Collection of talks on Perl 6.
• TPC 2018 - Videos from the The Perl Conference 2018.

Modules

Installation

• zef - Module manager.
• Modules - Perl 6 module directory.

Development

• How-to - How to write your own module.
• App::Mi6 - Helper for writing modules.
• Most Wanted - List of most wanted modules and features for Perl 6.

Catalogue

• XLSX::Writer - Module for creating Excel files.
• JSON::Fast - Pure JSON module.
• Red - ORM for Perl 6.

Tools

Compilers

• Compilers - List of compilers.
• Rakudo - Probably the most advanced compiler.

Editors

• Atom - Atom package for Perl 6 support.
• vim - Vim support for Perl 6.
• Emacs - Emacs major mode for Perl 6.
• Padre - Integrated Development Environment for Perl 6.
• COMMA - Integrated Development Environment for Perl 6.
• Jupyter - Perl 6 kernel for Jupyter notebooks.

License

To the extent possible under law, Stefan Fischer has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.