After a long trans-European journey, yours truly arrived to Cluj for the YAPC::Europe. Without a lot of time to spend on the Perl 6 Weekly. So, this time, only a small Perl 6 Weekly. Hope I didn’t miss too much!

Rakudo Compiler Release 2016.08.1

Zoffix Znet worked very hard on the Rakudo 2016.08 Compiler Release, but he botched a tag, so now we have a Rakudo 2016.08.1 Compiler Release. I’m pretty sure we will have a new Rakudo Star release based on this Compiler Release pretty soon!

More Dogfooding

It has been a while since Leon Timmermans worked on the Perl 6 version on TAP , which allows tests (such as running with make spectest ) to use Perl 6 itself to run the test-files, rather than Perl 5. For the first time, this actually completed flawlessly for yours truly in the past week:

All tests successful.

Files=1118, Tests=52595, 336 wallclock secs

Result: PASS

Again a step closer to providing the whole tool-chain in Perl 6!

Core Developments

Some of the core developments of the past week that made it into the 2016.08.1 release:

Elizabeth Mattijsen made several Set / SetHash related coercions between 40x and 300x faster.

made several / related coercions between 40x and 300x faster. Jonathan Worthington fixed quite a lot of async stability issues.

fixed quite a lot of async stability issues. Stefan Seifert fixed another set of pre-compilation issues, this time related to development versions of files.

fixed another set of pre-compilation issues, this time related to development versions of files. Zoffix Znet added support for a PERL6_TEST_DIE_ON_FAIL environment variable that will stop testing after the first failed test.

added support for a environment variable that will stop testing after the first failed test. And many other smaller fixes and improvements, of course!

Blog Posts

And the blog posts keep on coming!

Ecosystem Additions

Quite a nice selection again!

Sparrowdo::Cpm by Alexey Melezhik .

. Acme::Sudoku by Pierre Vigier .

. Texas::To::Uni by Altai-man .

. Sparrowdo::Nginx by Alexey Melezhik .

. Sparrowdo::Sparrow::Update by Alexey Melezhik .

. Printer::ESCPOS by Shantanu Bhadoria .

. CompUnit::Search by Shantanu Bhadoria .

. PKCS5 by Marcel Timmerman.

Winding Down

Time to get some sleep before all the stuff starts happening in Cluj!