Community

The developers of Perl 6 traditionally use IRC for communication. You may also join the #perl6 channel to ask questions about the language or execute a piece of Perl 6 online.

To join the channel, follow the instructions listed on the https://perl6.org/community/ page.

If you want to run the code in IRC, refer to the rakudo bot as follows:

<me> rakudo: say "Hello, World!"
<+camelia> rakudo-moar cb8fa0: OUTPUT: ?Hello, World!??

In the output, you can see that Rakudo is using the MoarVM backend by default. The string that was printed by the program is displayed after the OUTPUT keyword.

Use this feature carefully as the result of your requests will be visible to the whole room and also be logged. The best use case is to show the behavior of the compiler when you find a bug or when you see a different result from what is said in the documentation. The Perl 6 developers are always present in the IRC channel and will advise on what is wrong or will aim to fix the bug and make the documentation correct.

If you are on Facebook, visit the Perl 6 group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1595443877388632/

In the offline, you will see many people who love Perl 6 at various conferences. Go to the Perl Conference (previously known as YAPC, (Yet Another Perl Conference)), which is held every year in Europe and in the USA. You may find more about them on http://theperlconference.org and http://www.yapc.eu. For many years, there were work Perl booths at the big open-source conferences like OSCON and FOSDEM. There are also many local conferences, workshops, and local group meetings. Find the closest group to your location at http://pm.org.