Three Reasons to Port to Perl 6 now

Porting CGI::Application to Perl 6 has been a great experience.I offer these three reasons for others considering porting a module to Perl 6.

1. P  Porting a module by hand to Perl 6 makes a meaningful task of the fun of    learning a new language.  It's a great way to learn Perl 6.
2. Porting makes a great code review. As part of porting CGI::Application,    I found a number of ways to improve and simplify the code and test    suite. Sometimes the Perl 6 features help with that, but often    there is benefit just from reviewing the code closely...especially    old code. When porting a function the popular CGI.pm module, I    found and (submitted a patch for) an old bug where HTML was    not properly escaped. From the experience, you'll likely find    ways to improve your Perl 5 code, now.
3. Porting modules helps the Perl 6 effort. At this stageof Perl 6 development    you may run into a bug in Pugs or a part of the documentation that is not    clear. By providing constructive feedback and submitting tests, you provide    valuable help to the language designers and implementors.  You might even get    sucked into help more yourself! Not to mention, open source modules your    produce will help other Perl 6 users directly.

While I wouldn't yet recommend using Pugs for production now, it's a great time get to involved.

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