The 2016.03 Rakudo Compiler Release was a bit delayed due to uncertainty about the seriousness of a flapping test. Will Coleda made it happen nonetheless!

Events

If you happen to be in the Toronto area on 30th of March, you should check out Zoffix Znet‘s presentation: Wow, Perl 6!. Alternately, if you happen to be in the neighbourhood of Baltimore, MD around mid-April, you might want to visit the 2016 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, where Brock Wilcox will be giving a Perl 6 Hands-On Tutorial.

Core Developments

Due to the delay, some of these made it actually into the release!

Jonathan Worthington made "100".Int about 37x faster as part of the work on the heap snapshot functionality.

made about 37x faster as part of the work on the heap snapshot functionality. skids optimized and fixed some issues with Range , specifically when being used as a list.

optimized and fixed some issues with , specifically when being used as a list. Rob Hoelz merged his work on the REPL, which now makes the REPL written in Perl 6 and part of the CORE settings, rather than written in NQP, allowing for easier fixes and adaptability. It now also works with -I and the history is now actually saved to a file, so you can refer to previous REPL sessions.

merged his work on the REPL, which now makes the REPL written in Perl 6 and part of the CORE settings, rather than written in NQP, allowing for easier fixes and adaptability. It now also works with and the history is now actually saved to a file, so you can refer to previous REPL sessions. Stefan Seifert merged part of his CompUnitRepo work, which will allow for easier packaging of Perl 6 modules: for now, this should make stack-traces better readable by storing logical filenames (of the source) in precomped files, rather than physical filenames (where the precomped files actually live).

merged part of his CompUnitRepo work, which will allow for easier packaging of Perl 6 modules: for now, this should make stack-traces better readable by storing logical filenames (of the source) in precomped files, rather than physical filenames (where the precomped files actually live). Elizabeth Mattijsen did some minor fixes: Bool.enums now works, some issues with combinations and permutations and magic increments.

Blog Posts

Gems From The Backlog

Ecosystem Additions

Winding Down

A little later than usual, but for most people still right on time! See you next week!