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Add a note that the js backend is both experimental and unmaintained #103

Open Mai-Lapyst opened 6 months ago

Mai-Lapyst commented 6 months ago

Currently, the website lists the javascript part of raku/rakudo as an normal part of the whole language, which leads to outside viewers assuming that it is maintained like the rest of raku/rakudo, while this is clearly not the case in the moment.

It therefore should be added a notice that usage of the javascript backend / rakudo.js is experimental. It might even be of benefit to move the javascript tab from the top of the downloads page to the bottom under a new section "Experimental".

Maybe it also should be discussed if it is to be marked as "unmaintained" as it seems that way as no-one seems to work on it currently, which might be of benefit for an outside viewer to decide if they want to evaluate using rakudo with javascript or not.

coke commented 6 months ago

I just tried to follow the instructions from the site on setting up rakudo.js, and the npm install fails entirely (might be on a prereq)

I would recommend we remove the link to rakudo.js until it works, and also have https://www.npmjs.com/package/rakudo updated to refer to Raku, not Perl 6. - I was unable to find the source of that npm package.

patrickbkr commented 6 months ago

I can do the rakudo.org changes.

patrickbkr commented 5 months ago

Changes to rakudo.org are done.

patrickbkr commented 5 months ago

@dontlaugh, @andinus It seems that rakudo.org isn't updated. Is there any step I need to perform in addition to pushing to master?

andinus commented 5 months ago

Hi @patrickbkr , yes changes are pulled manually, currently justin does them as part of pushing a release. I should automate this, I'll try to do that sometime soon.

I've updated the website now.

coke commented 5 months ago

Change was 68d471b376573f122e4f08f8bd5d195be3dd4213

patrickbkr commented 5 months ago

Thanks @andinus!