Rakudo Star is

• ✓ a series of "distribution releases"

• ✓ useful for Early Adopters

• ✓ an invitation to developers

• ☹ not very fast very slow
• ☹ OMG HOW CAN IT BE SO SLOW?! ☹

• ☹ full of bugs and challenges for developers

• ☺ a means for Rakudo and Perl 6 to gain more feedback