2016.49 It’s Looking A Lot Like Blog Posts

Like snow flakes, all different, all unique! But a lot to read and to take in. On the other hand, you have a whole week to catch up!

Adventing Perl 6

Yes, it’s that time of the year again: every day a blog post about a specific Perl 6 feature. Every Day!

• Day 1 – Consuming GitHub Webhooks by Will Coleda.
• Day 2 – Bioinformatics with Perl 6 by Ken Youens-Clark.
• Day 3 – Object Hashes by brian d foy.
• Day 4 – Quantum Secret Santa by Brian Duggan.
• Day 5 – How to use the docs by Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer.

Quick Tipping

As part of the Learning Perl 6 Kickstarter (now 95% funded with more than 450 backers), brian d foy continued writing his Quick Tips every day:

• Quick Tip #13: Kapreker’s Constant
• Quick Tip #14: Myriad output routines
• Quick Tip #15: Phasers
• Quick Tip #16: Explosive combinatorials
• Quick Tip #17: Rakudo’s built-in profiler
• Quick Tip #18: Short circuit subroutines with multi
• Quick Tip #19: Build reusable data types
• Quick Tip #20: Way off base

Of course, it’s not too late yet to back his Kickstarter and become part of this unique endeavour!

Core Developments

• Jonathan Worthington again fixed some GC (garbage collection) related issues that primarily showed up when using Proc::Async. He also fixed a data race in Supply.interval and various races in supply/whenever.
• Christian Bartolomäus worked around behaviour of nqp::substr working differently on the JVM backend.
• Zoffix Znet invested a lot of time de-terming -Inf, so that it better follows the rules of precedence. He also made sure that − (aka U+2212) can be used as an alternative for - (aka hyphen).
• Stefan Seifert fixed an issue for packagers that was so eloquently raised by Matt Trout at the London Perl Workshop during the repeat of his YAPC::Europe presentation The raptor and the butterfly.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen worked on the final bits of optimising the native shaped arrays, making them quite a bit faster at initialisation, iterating and standard methods such as .values, .pairs and so on.
• and of course many other improvements, bug fixes and awesomizations.

Other Blog Posts

• Backticks and tests in Perl 6 by Ken Youens-Clark.
• Perl 5, Perl 6, Dancer, & other advent calendars start tomorrow (Dec 1)! by Vicky Brasseur.
• Perl Advent Calendar Enters Its 17th Year by EditorDavid.
• Taking a couple of steps backwards to fix a GC bug by Jonathan Worthington.
• Why should I learn Perl 6? by depaysementKing.
• Should I just call it P6? or v6? by brian d foy.
• How is the perl 5/6 transition different from the python 2/3 transition? by analogphototaker.
• Is Perl 6 on moarvm fast enough yet? by kkrev.
• Anyone using Rakudo Star 2016.11 on Windows 10? by rb_me.
• Perl 6 By Example: Formatting a Sudoku Puzzle by Moritz Lenz.
• Perl 6 / Rakudo * on WSL/Windows by yorickdowne.
• The London Perl Workshop 2016 by Neil Bowers.

Ecosystem Additions

• Parser::FreeXL::Native by Bernhard Specht.
• HTML::Tag by Mark Rushing.
• CSS::Declarations by David Warring.

Winding Down

A tiresome week for yours truly. But that won’t stop anybody from making the coming week another good week for Perl 6 and even more tiring for yours truly. And that’s a good thing 🙂 So check in again next week for more Perl 6 news!