The -v and --version command

The -v and --version options print the version of the current Perl 6 compiler as follows:

$ perl6 -v

At the time of writing, I am using Rakudo Star version 2017.01, and this is what the output looks like:

This is Rakudo version 2017.01 built on MoarVM version 2017.01 implementing Perl 6.c.

The important thing here, apart from the version itself, is the virtual machine that is used to execute Perl 6 (MoarVM, as shown earlier) and the version of the Perl 6 language specification (it is 6.c in this example).

The Rakudo Star versioning scheme uses the year and the month of the release date of the distributive. Rakudo is rapidly developing, so check the rakudo.org site regularly to get updates.