Jonathan Worthington explains why he got a lump in his throat when he approved changing the name of “Perl 6” to “Raku”. Feelings that yours truly (like many others) only can share. (/r/perl, /r/perl6 comments). Andrew Shitov also shared his feelings about renaming the Perl 6 Programming Language (/r/perl6, Facebook comments).

Video Tutorials

Yanzhan Yang, a serial tech video uploader, has posted some more Perl 6 introductory videos on YouTube:

Amazing!

Faster Continuous Integration

Tony O’Dell has created a walk through on how to do Continuous Integration with Circle CI and Travis CI, using a Docker image.

The power of base

Shred_Alert describes the magic of base .

Perl Weekly Challenge #27

Blog posts with Perl 6 solutions for Challenge #27:

Simon Proctor is the champion of week 27! And as usual, Challenge #28 is up for your perusal.

Core Developments

Jan-Olof Hendig fixed a few C-scoping issues in MoarVM and a potential segfault when closing STDIN.

fixed a few C-scoping issues in MoarVM and a potential segfault when closing STDIN. Stefan Seifert fixed a potential memory corruption issue with spesh plugins and Garbage Collection.

fixed a potential memory corruption issue with spesh plugins and Garbage Collection. Timo Paulssen fixed an interface problem between the profiler and Comma.

fixed an interface problem between the profiler and Comma. Elizabeth Mattijsen made it possible to subclass the Proxy , allowing one to more easily create custom containers. And she sped up a lot of Cool methods.

made it possible to subclass the , allowing one to more easily create custom containers. And she sped up a lot of methods. And some smaller fixes and improvements.

Questions about Perl 6

Meanwhile on Twitter

Meanwhile on Facebook

Captures my feeling by Will ‘Coke’ Coleda .

. Role of TPF? by Matthew Persico.

Meanwhile on perl6-users

Perl 6 in comments

No need to stop the world by yellowapple.

Perl 6 Modules

New modules:

File::Copy by Tom Browder.

Updated modules:

IRC::Client::Plugin::NickServ by Patrick Spek .

. Tomty, Tomtit by Alexey Melezhik .

. Archive::Libarchive by Fernando Santagata .

. ModelDB, Cofra by Sterling Hanenkamp .

. LibXML by David Warring .

. ORM::ActiveRecord by Greg Donald.

Winding Down

It appears there will be no Rakudo 2019.09 compiler release. Which makes sense since it’s almost October. Check out the Perl 6 Weekly next week for more news about this and many other things!