2016.10 Enchanté!

The excellent Introduction to Perl 6 by Naoum Hankache now also has a French translation: Introduction à Perl 6 by Romuald Nuguet. And for those of you who had missed this, there is also a German translation (Perl 6 Einführung by Sören Laird Sörries). I just wish someone would find the time to write a Dutch translation, so I could finally figure out this Perl 6 thing 🙂

Damian Conway to keynote at YAPC::NA

Pardon the verbing. Damian’s keynote address will focus on some of the less-heralded features of Perl 5 and Perl 6 which make life so much better, even for beginner Perl programmers. This will be an outstanding presentation for new and experienced programmers alike.

Assorted developments

• ^Inf .rand no longer hangs, but gives an error.
• Buf.splice now has the same order of parameters as Array.splice.
• "q b c d".words -> $a, $b { ... } now ends its iterator properly, instead of erroring at the end.
• Several codegen issues and memory leaks fixed.
• Default accessors are now generated more optimally.
• sub MAIN(\foo) now generates correct name for usage message.
• Several optimizations regarding Capture and Parameter in relation to ~~ and eqv, resulting in a 17x faster punning of a role like Buf.
• Improved the codegen for metaop_assign (like +=) when native values or sub calls are on the left hand side.
• Improved safe exception printing, important when working on the core setting and an error occurs before Exception.pm has been reached.
• Buf.new(my @a) no longer errors.

Blog Posts

• Finding Most Common Russian N-Grams by Rob Hoelz
• Digging Into The Performance / Reliability Work by Jonathan Worthington

Gems from the Backlog

The second half of February. We should be sorta in sync again after the next Perl 6 Weekly.

• On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs
• Time in Perl6 (2010)
• A Perl 6 Debugger (2012)
• Periodic Table of the Operators (outdated)
• Butterfly emoji (proposed)
• Purr… Weez Watching U
• Reversi By Grammar
• “The worst possible representation of iCalendar as JSON”
• Lazy fruits from the gather of Eden (2009)
• RESTRICTED.setting
• Lamdu
• Fault Tolerance (PGA)
• Perl 6 Issue Submitter
• Autopun spotting
• Security Vulnerabilities in Docker Images
• Atom Perl 6 Editor Tools Screencasts
• Parallelism, Concurrency and Asynchrony in Perl 6 (2015)
• A Secret Vice
• Refinement Types
• Perl 6 on the cover of Programista
• Perl 6 on the cover of iX Magazine
• Perl 6 Believe It Or Not
• Refactor Package (Atom)
• A New Trait For Old Methods (2015)

Ecosystem Additions

• Util::Bitfield by Jonathan Stowe
• Crane by Andy Weidenbaum
• Algorithm::KdTree by okaoka
• LibZip by Ahmad M. Zawawi
• Lingua::EN::Conjugate by Romuald Nuguet

Winding Down

That’s it. C’est fini! Das war’s. Tis op.