Next week, everything will become clear. Otherwise, the past week felt like a slow week. I guess I should stop playing debate-bingo.

Core developments

Zoffix Znet made the Exception that is thrown when no matching candidate is found in a multi-dispatch, MMA (Much More Awesome). He also fixed many other errors.

made the that is thrown when no matching candidate is found in a multi-dispatch, MMA (Much More Awesome). He also fixed many other errors. Elizabeth Mattijsen made dir() about 20% faster. She also made use lib 'dir' more than 20x faster, which is especially important if the 'dir' is actually a large directory structure. Finally, she also fixed an easter egg.

made about 20% faster. She also made more than 20x faster, which is especially important if the is actually a large directory structure. Finally, she also fixed an easter egg. Dominique Dumont has done a lot of work creating Debian packages of Rakudo Perl 6 and its dependencies.

has done a lot of work creating Debian packages of Rakudo Perl 6 and its dependencies. cygx made sure that Enum s will smartmatch correctly with the roles that they do.

made sure that s will smartmatch correctly with the roles that they do. Christian Bartolomäus and Pepe Schwarz continued their work on fixing stuff on the JVM backend.

and continued their work on fixing stuff on the JVM backend. Tobias Leich fixed many problems with NativeCall , amongst one that now allows the use of NativeCall on the Raspberry Pi.

fixed many problems with , amongst one that now allows the use of on the Raspberry Pi. Daniel Green worked on replacing low-level BOOTSTRAPATTR s by more high-level Attribute s to allow for better manipulexity.

Blog Posts

Ecosystem Additions

Only 3 this week 😦

Digest::SHA1::Native by Brian Duggan .

. Net::IP::Lite by Tom Browder .

. Sparrowdo::Chef::Manager by Alexey Melezhik.

Winding Down

As I said, a slow week. This coming weekend we will see another release of Rakudo Perl 6 again. With a ChangeLog of 58 items already, it’s looking up to be a nice one again! And of course, don’t forget to work on your Pull Requests for the Hacktoberfest!