So, one day you start writing the Perl 6 Weekly. And before you know it, you’ve done a 100 of them. Which was last week. Yours truly hopes to be writing many more of these. Well, as long as you readers let me 🙂

Benvenuto!

Yes, the famous Perl 6 Introduction website now also has an Italian version: Perl 6 Introduizone. Of course, if Italian is not your thing, you might want to try: Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese or Spanish!

Blog Posts

Core Developments

Most of the visible developments this week came from all of the work that Jonathan Worthington has done revamping a lot of MoarVM internals, which he describes in his most recent blog post. Apart from that, he also fixed some race conditions in the implementation of supply and whenever .

has done revamping a lot of MoarVM internals, which he describes in his most recent blog post. Apart from that, he also fixed some race conditions in the implementation of and . Nick Logan improved Version smartmatch with uneven lengths.

improved smartmatch with uneven lengths. Stefan Seifert optimised NativeCall quite a bit.

optimised quite a bit. And many other smaller fixes and improvements.

Meanwhile on Twitter

Meanwhile on StackOverflow

Meanwhile on perl6-users

Ecosystem Additions

GLFW by Ryan S. Northrup .

. PrettyDump by brian d foy .

. Text::UpsideDown by Steve Nolte .

. HTML::Escape by moznion .

. App::Miroku by Ned Rihine .

. Chemistry::Elements by brian d foy .

. System::DiskAndUpdatesAlerts by Ramiro Encinas.

Winding Down

Alas, not a lot of that happening this week with The Perl Conference in Amsterdam. Yours truly hopes to see a lot of regular readers there and hear what thoughts they have on making the Perl 6 Weekly better! And if you can’t make it there, be sure to check out next week’s Perl 6 Weekly!