I started a GitHub project to translate the Perl 5 perlfaq to Perl 6. For years I maintained those documents so they are a bit special to me. Sadly, the canonical TPF repo started over in 2012 with the sources current in v5.15, so most of that history has been lost. Oh well.

I don’t want to create a new FAQ for Perl 6, because an official FAQ already exists. If that document steals from this new project, that’s fine with me. I’m doing this just because I am, and if you want to help or play with it, welcome! But, I’m just translating and adapting, not adding or deleting.

I grabbed the perlfaq questions and put them into new documents, created a repo, and filled in some of the basic meta-answers for perlfaq1. I’m curious how the rest of the perlfaq would turn out. The questions were things important to people twenty years ago. How does that hold up today?

Some things might not matter anymore in Perl 6

Some things use different tools now

The modules have all changed, and if they haven’t, we can use the Perl 5 modules.

If it doesn’t matter anymore, keeping the question but explaining the way Perl 6 handles it for you is something some people will appreciate. If it’s a task-based question, people probably still have the question (and will have it frequently).