Zoffix Znet has published the IO action plan as part of the IO grant work. Please read it and if you have any comments, let Zoffix know! Alternately / Additionally, you might want to check out the February Grant Report. In the past week, several IO related parts of Rakudo have already become significantly faster!

Hyper / Race Semantics

Jonathan Worthington thought a lot on the issues surrounding hyper and race and produced a plan, inviting comments. Please have a look at it and come up with a better name for Seqqy . 🙂

Fernando Correa Welcome!

Fernando Correa has joined the ranks of the Rakudo Perl 6 Core Developers! As SmokeMachine he already has quite a few merged Pull Requests under his belt. We’re all looking forward to seeing more of his excellent work. A hearty welcome on behalf of everybody interested in Rakudo Perl 6!

Other Core Developments

Samantha McVey increased the speed of concatenating strings on MoarVM up to 30%, while fixing some issues with concatenating strings with control characters at either end.

increased the speed of concatenating strings on MoarVM up to 30%, while fixing some issues with concatenating strings with control characters at either end. Stefan Seifert improved a confusing error message when trying to load a non-existing module that matches a distribution name.

improved a confusing error message when trying to load a non-existing module that matches a distribution name. Jonathan Worthington fixed a race condition issue with generating a unique ID for EVAL blocks.

fixed a race condition issue with generating a unique ID for blocks. Elizabeth Mattijsen made .invert about 10x faster.

made about 10x faster. Zoffix Znet made many of the path manipulation methods (such as IO::Path.child and IO::Spec::Unix.catpath ) up to an order of magnitude faster.

made many of the path manipulation methods (such as and ) up to an order of magnitude faster. Jonathan Stowe fixed an issue with the introspection of attributes of Associative s with explicitly typed keys.

fixed an issue with the introspection of attributes of s with explicitly typed keys. And as usual, many other smaller improvements and bugfixes.

Blog Posts

Meanwhile on Twitter

Meanwhile on StackOverflow

Ecosystem Additions

Only one addition this week…

Proc::Async::Timeout by Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer.

Winding Down

Posted a little later than usual, all because yours truly was pleasantly detained at a concert in Brussels. Please check in again next week for more Perl 6 news!