With only a few weeks to go, the schedule of the Perl Programming Languages devroom at FOSDEM 2018 (on 3 and 4 February) has been finalized. These are the Rakudo Perl 6 related presentations:

Of course, there will also be a Perl booth at FOSDEM 2018 with all sorts of free goodies such as stickers, tuits and promo leaflets. And Perl books, both Perl 5 and Perl 6, available to you at cost. Please come and visit FOSDEM, it’s big, it’s crowded, it’s in Brussels and it’s free!

Core Developments

Zoffix Znet has been doing a lot in the past week. He made coercers of the type Int:D() (aka type-smileys) parse correctly, so they now work. He also fixed issues when hypering over a Blob or Buf , and made chainable operators 2.6x faster ( 42 < $a < 666 used to be slower than 42 < $a && $a < 666 ).

has been doing a lot in the past week. He made coercers of the type (aka type-smileys) parse correctly, so they now work. He also fixed issues when hypering over a or , and made chainable operators 2.6x faster ( used to be slower than ). Itsuki Toyota made sure that the type-smileys were immediately used in a lot of the Rakudo Perl 6 source code to improve error messaging on faulty input with type objects.

made sure that the type-smileys were immediately used in a lot of the Rakudo Perl 6 source code to improve error messaging on faulty input with type objects. Bart Wiegmans fixed some memory leaks in MoarVM.

fixed some memory leaks in MoarVM. Nick Logan improved the .perl of CompUnit::Repository::FileSystem (aka CURFS) and CompUnit::Repository::Installation (aka CURI) objects.

improved the of (aka CURFS) and (aka CURI) objects. Moritz Lenz made Proc.status a read-only attribute, which it should have been from the beginning. He also improved the LTA error message when trying to interpolate a hash into a Regex .

made a read-only attribute, which it should have been from the beginning. He also improved the LTA error message when trying to interpolate a hash into a . Jeremy Studer made sure that negated chained operators work correctly.

made sure that negated chained operators work correctly. Elizabeth Mattijsen made creation of Date and DateTime objects 1.6x faster. She also fixed .skip(*-3) , which was documented to work, but didn’t.

made creation of and objects 1.6x faster. She also fixed , which was documented to work, but didn’t. And many other smaller fixes and improvements.

Blog Posts

Meanwhile on Twitter

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Suman Khanal:

Now Code-runner supports executing Perl 6 scripts in Visual Studio Code. Write a script and execute with the shortcut: Ctr+Alt+N

Winding Down

It was a week with a lot of people on well deserved holidays. But still a lot happened in the Rakudo Perl 6 world. So this is promising for the coming week. See you then again? And be safe!