Yours truly is happy to announce that Roman Baumer and Matthias Bloch have become responsible for infrastructure issues in the Perl 6 Problem Solving repository, the place where the Perl 6 community reaches decisions on matters involving Rakudo Perl 6 that are not bugs.

Perl Weekly Challenge

Blog posts in Perl 6 for the Perl Weekly Challenge #7:

Challenge #8 is up for your perusal!

Core developments

Ticket status of the past week.

Ben Davies fixed the inlining of CStruct and CUnion in CPPStruct REPR instances.

fixed the inlining of and in instances. Daniel Green fixed several compiler warnings in MoarVM.

fixed several compiler warnings in MoarVM. Several improvements that Ben Davies made to ThreadPoolScheduler.cue were finally merged. He also fixed some issues with the Moar runner code.

made to were finally merged. He also fixed some issues with the runner code. Elizabeth Mattijsen made Iterable (<=) Hash 2x faster (for object hashes) and 3x faster (for normal hashes).

made 2x faster (for object hashes) and 3x faster (for normal hashes). Brian S. Julin finally saw his colon list handling improvements merged into master.

finally saw his colon list handling improvements merged into master. And some other other improvements and fixes.

Questions about Perl 6

Meanwhile on Facebook

Downloads working again by Darren Duncan.

Meanwhile on perl6-users

Three weeks worth of messages on the perl6-user mailinglist:

Meanwhile on Twitter

Perl 6 in comments

Perl 6 Modules

New modules:

Cro::LDAP::ASN::Plugin by Alexander Kiryuhin .

. Async::Workers by Vadim Belman .

. Podviewer by Luis F. Uceta .

. FindBin::Dirs by Steven Lembark .

. Net::Telnet by Ben Davies.

Updated modules:

Method::Also by Elizabeth Mattijsen .

. Term::Form, Term::Choose, Term::Choose::Util, Term::TablePrint by Matthäus Kiem .

. FindBin by Steven Lembark .

. GTK::V3, Pod::Render by Marcel Timmerman .

. Math::Polygons by Steve Roe .

. LibCurl by Curt Tilmes.

Winding Down

A bit of a quiet week. Pretty sure there will be more to report on next week. So please check in again!