Perl 6 Modules Directory

Below you can find a list of known Perl 6 modules. All of them have been working on Rakudo at some point.

These modules can be installed with panda, a module management tool which comes with Rakudo Star.

If you want to contribute your own module, please read this guide.

Missing a module you can't live without? Consider adding it to a Most Wanted list on the ecosystem wiki.

Project list

ABC: Toolkit for dealing with ABC music notation
Acme::Addslashes: PHP security. Now in Perl 6.
Acme::Meow: The kitty you always wanted, now in Perl 6
ADT: Algebraic Data Types inspired by Haskell.
Adventure::Engine: Helps build and run adventure games.
Algorithm::Diff: Contains several interfaces for which computing the differences between two lists.
Algorithm::Soundex: Soundex Algorithm in Perl 6
Algorithm::Viterbi: HMM decoding with the Viterbi algorithm.
Bailador: A bare-bones Dancer port
Benchmark: Benchmark running times of Perl 6 code
Benchmark::Plot: Simple benchmark graphing script
bioperl6: Collection of Bioinformatics modules and objects
BSON: BSON encoding/decoding, used in MongoDB drivers
Cache::Memcached: Port of Cache::Memcached from Perl 5 to Perl 6
CGI::Application: incomplete Perl 6 port of the Perl 5 CGI::Application module
Class::Utils: Small utilities to help with defining classes
Config::INI: .ini file parser and writer module for Perl 6
Coroutines: The only fake threads in Perl 6
CSS::Grammar: Perl 6 CSS related grammars
CSS::Language: Perl 6 CSS parsing and validation - levels 1, 2.1 and 3
Date::WorkdayCalendar: Calendar and Date objects to handle business days, holidays and weekends
DateTime::Format: strftime and other DateTime formatting libraries
DateTime::Format::W3CDTF: A Perl 6 module to deal with W3CDTF dates
DateTime::Math: Add common math operations to DateTime objects.
DateTime::TimeZone: A library for working with Time Zones in Perl 6
DateTime::Utils: A meta project for DateTime related libraries.
DB::Model::Easy: Build database models in Perl 6, easily.
DBIish: Database connectivity for Perl 6
Digest: Pure perl6 implementation of digest algorigthms.
Digest::MD5: Perl6 port of Perl5' Digest::MD5 module
Digest::SHA256: A Perl 6 port of the SHA256 module in Perl 5
Druid: A connection-oriented board game written in Perl 6
Email::Simple: Simple email parsing module
Enc::MIME::Base64: MIME Base64 encoding for Perl 6 binary data and strings using any string encoding.
Facter: A port of puppetlabs facter to Perl 6
Farabi6: Perl 6 in-browser Editor
FastCGI: A FastCGI library for Perl 6
File::Compare: Compare files to check for equality/difference
File::Directory::Tree: Port of File::Path::Tiny - create and delete directory trees
File::Find::Duplicates: Get a list of duplicate files in directories
File::HomeDir: Find your home and other directories on any platform
File::Spec: portably perform operations on file names
File::Spec::Case: Check if your filesystem is case sensitive or case tolerant (insensitive)
File::Temp: Create temporary files
File::Tools: Various modules for file operations
Flower: XML Application Languages, including TAL.
Form: A Perl 6 implementation of Perl 6-style string formatting.
Game::Crypt: An adventure game.
Games::BubbleBreaker: A mouse based logic game
GD: Perl 6 interface to the Gd graphics library.
GeoIP::City: MaxMind GeoIP City library interface
GGE: Glacial Grammar Engine -- a Perl 6 grammar engine written in Perl 6
Grammar::Debugger: Simple tracing and debugging support for Perl 6 grammars
Grammar::Profiler::Simple: Simple rule profiling for Perl 6 grammars
Hinges: A Genshi-like template engine
HTML::Strip: Strip HTML markup from text
HTML::Template: A simple almost-port of CPAN's HTML::Template to Perl 6
HTTP::Client: A flexible HTTP Client library
HTTP::Easy: HTTP servers made easy, including PSGI
HTTP::Server::Simple: Simple webserver module, with PSGI support
HTTP::Status: Get the text message associated with an HTTP status code
ignore: cli util that adds stuff to VCS ignore files
Imlib2: Perl 6 interface to the Imlib2 image library.
Inline: use C-code from within Perl
io-prompt: [old] Perl6 basic type validating IO prompting for command line tools.
IO::Capture::Simple: IO can be captured
IO::Path::More: Extends IO::Path to make it more like p5's Path::Class
IO::Prompter: Damian Conway's IO::Prompter
IO::Select: Object-oriented interface to the select system call
IoC: Wire your application components together using inversion of control
IRC::Utils: A Perl 6 port of the IRC::Utils module
IUP: Perl 6 interface to the IUP toolkit for building GUI's
JSON::Path: Implementation of the JSONPath data structure query language.
JSON::RPC: JSON-RPC 2.0 client and server.
JSON::Tiny: A minimal JSON (de)serializer
Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinal: A module that generates ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers
Lingua::EN::Sentence: Module for splitting text into sentences
Lingua::EN::Syllable: Guess the number of syllables in an English word
Lingua::Number: Write cardinal and ordinal numbers with words in over fifty languages
List::Utils: Simple list utility subs
Locale::US: Two letter codes for identifying United States territories and vice versa
lolsql: [old] I can has lolsql parser?
LWP::Simple: LWP::Simple quick & dirty implementation for Rakudo Perl 6
mandelbrot: Simple Mandelbrot Set scripts
Masquerade: Let Perl 6 constructs masquerade as other things.
Perl6-Math-Quaternion: Hyper-complex numbers as objects with operators
Math::ContinuedFractions: Basic continued fraction arithmetic
Math::Model: Automagic integrator for models (first order ODEs)
Math::Polynomial: Simple polynomial class
Math::RungeKutta: Numeric integrator for ordinary coupled, linear differential equations
Math::Vector: Vector math class
messagepack-pm6: [old] A MessagePack implementation written in Perl 6
Method::Modifiers: Adds before, after and around functions to make wrapping method calls easier.
MIME::Base64: Encoding and decoding Base64 ASCII strings
MIME::Types: Parse a mime.types file, and query the results
MiniDBI: a subset of Perl 5 DBI ported to Perl 6 to use while experts build the Real Deal
Modular: Modular arithmetics in Perl6
MongoDB: MongoDB driver
MPD: Interface to libmpdclient C library
MuEvent: An AnyEvent lookalike
NativeCall: Call native libraries
NCurses: Perl 6 interface to NCurses, the text-based interface libary
Net::Curl: Perl 6 interface to libcurl, the free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library
Net::IRC::Bot: An IRC bot framework
Net::ZMQ: ZeroMQ bindings for Perl6
Netstring: A library for working with netstrings.
Nonongram: incomplete Perl 6 solver of the nonogram puzzle
november: [old] A wiki engine written in Perl 6
p6doc: Perl 6 documentation (tools and docs)
panda: A module management solution
pandabrew: Make it easier to work with panda across Rakudo updates
PDF::Grammar: Perl 6 grammars for parsing PDF Content Streams and File Structure
Perl6::Literate: Literate programming (Ã la Haskell) in Perl 6
Plosurin: Perl 6 implementation of Closure Templates
Pod::Parser: Naive parser for Perl 6 style POD documents
Pod::To::HTML: Convert Perl 6 Pod to HTML
PSGI: A PSGI helper library.
PSpec: An RSpec-like testing framework for Perl 6
Rakudo::Debugger: guess
Redis: A Perl6 binding for Redis
SCGI: A SCGI library for Perl 6
SDL: A Perl 6 wrapper around SDL 1.2
Semantic::Versioning: Semantic versioning for objects
Sitemap::XML::Parser: Module for parsing sitemap.xml files
Sort::Naturally: Provides several routines to ease natural sorting.
Squerl: SQL Abstraction library
SSL: Perl6 interface to OpenSSL
String::CRC32: Simple Perl 6 class to calculate a CRC32 checksum of a string
Sum: Perl6 modules for computing hashes and checksums.
SVG: A Perl 6 module to generate SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
SVG::Plot: A Perl 6 charting and plotting library that produces SVG output
Tardis: Time traveling debugger in Perl 6
Task::Star: Meta-package for modules included in Rakudo Star
Template6: A template engine inspired by TT.
Template::Mojo: A templating system similar to Perl 5's Mojo::Template
Term::ANSIColor: Colorize terminal output
Term::ProgressBar: Perl 6 implementation of Progress Bar.
Test-ClientServer: Fork a single test file for testing network server/client code
Test-Corpus: Run a test function against a directory of input and expected output files
Test::Builder: Flexible framework for building TAP test libraries
Test::Harness: Read TAP output
Test::Junkie: A continuous test runner for Perl 6
Test::Mock: Simple creation of mock objects using the Act, Arrange, Assert pattern.
Testing: Damian Conway's Perl 6 testing module
TestML: A Generic Software Testing Meta Language
Text-Levenshtein: Calculate Levenshtein edit distance for strings. Perl 5 -> 6 port.
Text-Tabs-Wrap: Simple line-wrapping and tab [un]expansion tools
Text::Abbrev: Create an abbreviation table from a list
Text::CSV: A parser for CSV (comma-separated values) files for Perl 6
Text::Diff: Perform diffs on files and record sets
Text::Emotion: Get an emotional score for a passage of text based on its word use.
Text::Markdown: Perl 6 implementation of Markdown.
Text::T9: Guess words basing on a T9 key sequence
Text::Table::List: Build simple text-based tables for field listings.
Threads: Threads in Perl 6. Yeah, really
Time::Duration: Runded or exact English expression of durations
Tree::Simple: A simple tree object
Typed::Subroutines: Better type checking for first-class functions
ufo: Swoops down and creates your Perl 6 project Makefile for you
URI: A URI implementation using Perl 6 grammars to implement RFC 3986 BNF
v5: Reimplementation of Perl 5 Slang
Web: A Web Application foundation for Perl 6
Web::App::Ballet: A Dancer-like interface to Web::App
Web::App::MVC: MVC Framework for Web Apps in Perl 6.
Web::Template: A template engine abstraction layer for web frameworks.
XML: A full-featured, pure-perl XML library (parsing, manipulation, emitting, queries, etc.)
XML::Parser::Tiny: A Perl 6 module for parsing XML documents
XML::Query: jQuery-like node selecting and traversing for XML.
XML::Writer: A Perl 6 module to generate XML
XMMS2: Perl 6 bindings and stuff for XMMS2
XXX: See Your Data in the Nude
YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language
Yapsi: A Perl 6 compiler-and-runtime written in Perl 6
Yarn: A proof-of-concept blogging application using Perl 6's Web.pm