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[https://glot.io/new/perl6 Try Perl 6 on glot.io].
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Perl 6 is
Though it resembles previous versions of [[Perl]] to no small degree, Perl 6 is substantially a new language; by design, it isn't backwards-compatible with Perl 5.
The first official release was at Christmas of 2015.
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The only compiler implementing the full test suite, Rakudo, currently runs on either of two backends, MoarVM or JVM.
Subsequent language revisions are planned for release on a roughly yearly cycle.
==A Note on the Renaming==
As of October 2019, "Perl 6" was renamed as "Raku". Since the old name has been in use for many years, it will take some time for the new designation to propagate widely. Expect to see both names in use for some time, but understand that they refer to exactly the same underlying idea. In particular, here on Rosetta Code essentially all tasks are currently listed under Perl 6, and there are no immediate plans to change this.
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