3. Learning Perl 6 as "First" Language

Learning Perl 6 as "First" Language

I was going to make a post with this question, but since it's related to the OP's situation, I'll just put it here as a comment.

I love Perl 5, and I use it all the time for my personal projects (in fact I posted a question here just a couple of days ago when I had some trouble with one of those), but I've been toying with Perl 6 because I'm excited to learn more about it and start using it. Time and time again, though, the (perceived?) lack of libraries made me fall short, especially the lack of graphical libraries to make GUI applications (I'm on Windows 7 btw).

Yesterday, I saw that there is already a working graphical library for Perl 6, GDK I think, which can be installed in Rakudo Star through Panda. I dilligently updated my Rakudo installation so that I could give it a try. It will be nice to have the equivalent of PPM in Perl 6, I thought; this may be what finally makes it usable for me as a beginner.

But, alas, I can't find Panda anywhere. It doesn't seem to ship with Rakudo, for Windows at least. The post in rakudo.org mentions improvements on it, so I'm at a loss.

Where is Panda?

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