The speed canary script run daily by Merijn H. Brand has dropped below 2 seconds wallclock time for the first time in the history of the test being run (FaceBook comments). Since then, this has happened one more time (at moment of writing): there’s always a bit of noise involved with these timings. Check out the raw version of the speed log, if you want to keep up to date.
Rakudo 2018.09 Compiler Release
Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev and Samantha McVey have done it again: release MoarVM and the Rakudo Compiler. Claudio Ramirez took this as an immediate cue to update the directly installable Linux distributions. Kudos to all involved!
Thoughts on using Perl 6
Alex Schroeder explains in his blog post how he has been maintaining the Oddmuse wiki software since 2003, and that he is now learning Perl 6 using a real project (Reddit comments).
Math::Matrix
Herbert Breunung continued his series of blog posts about Math::Matrix:
Documentation from the CLI
bdmatatu describes the quick hack with which it is possible to look at the documentation of docs.perl6.org from the command line.
Worth learning
EarlTheGray enquired about Perl 6 on Reddit, specifically about the functional programming side of it. And that there didn’t appear to be much of an active Perl 6 community. Yours truly guesses we need to get out more 🙂
Core Developments
- Ticket status of last week.
- Samantha McVey implemented the
UTF16leandUTF16bestreaming encoding / decoding while following the behaviour of Perl 5 with regards toBOMs. - Tobias Boege fixed an issue with the recursion check of non-dwimmy hyperops.
- Zoffix Znet continued his tireless work in preparation for the
6.drelease, specifically focussing on consistent behaviour ofRats. - Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue with
QuantHash.ACCCEPTSwith regards to otherQuantHashes of the same type. - And many other smaller fixes and improvements.
Meanwhile on Twitter
- Crochet by doomyflo.
- A Dream full of Dreams by モメン.
- Calvinball by Emily St.
- I want to see Perl 6 by きよっち@ドラゴンズとゴールデンキングス.
- I’m not joking by David Beazley.
- A Language I have never used by だっく.
- Left a long time ago by Krakpotkin.
- Specifically, Perl ! by ryn1x.
- A good programming book by cody.
- Like ccdiff by Joelle Maslak.
- A big deal by JJ Merelo.
- Algorithm trumps Language by Joelle Maslak.
- Obama by Guacamoley.
- Small wikis by Patrick Spek.
- Perl& 6 Maintainers too! by Suman Khanal, MS.
- Migrating to Perl 6 by Open Source Way.
- My task management program by Joelle Maslak.
- BGP Module Status by Joelle Maslak.
- Learning Perl 6 Shipping by brian d foy.
- Learning Perl 6 Impressions by Stéphane Payrard.
- New Functions by Herbert Breunung.
- New
Dockercontainer by JJ Merelo. - Aleks-Daniel was in charge by JJ Merelo.
- Performance Analysis Tool by The Perl Shop.
- Maybe not spot on by Phil Wilmarth.
- Contender for language of the future by siliconbaytech.
- Simulation Model NH³ Production at Swiss Farms by Joaquín Ferrero.
RedORM API comments please! by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.- Stingray? by Stéphane Payrard.
Meanwhile on StackOverflow
- Adding Authorization or Headers with
Cro::WebSocket::Client? by Curt Tilmes. - Is it possible for Perl 6 to work online? by Eugene Barsky.
Meanwhile on FaceBook
- Perl 6 Wine! by Wendy van Dijk.
Meanwhile on perl6-users
- Extending built-in classes by Joseph Brenner.
- Grammar doesn’t seem to match any token by Mark Carter.
Perl 6 in comments
- Autovivification by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- Build impossible programs by Bart Wiegmans.
- Will a Perl 6 program run on Perl 5? by _sh.
- Perl Wine by Wendy van Dijk.
- A language reboot Perl 6 style by pjmlp.
- Superset of capabilities by Ralph Mellor.
- Dynamic lexically scoped by Ralph Mellor.
- News to me by Patrick Spek.
Perl 6 Modules
New Modules:
- CroX::HTTP::Auth::Munge by Curt Tilmes.
- Hash::Agnostic, Object::Delayed by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- Sparrowdo::Cordova::OSx::Fortify by Alexey Melezhik.
- Libui by Travis Gibson.
- Wkhtmltox by Ahmad M. Zawawi.
- App::Tasks by Joelle Maslak.
- Cro::RPC::JSON by Vadim Belman.
Updated Modules:
- GraphQL, epoll, DB::Pg by Curt Tilmes.
- Scalar::Util, Array::Agnostic, Array::Sparse, Object::Trampoline by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- Getopt::Advance by araraloren.
- Sparrowdo::Cordova::OSx::Build by Alexey Melezhik.
- Image::Libexif by Fernando Santagata.
- JSON::Schema by Jonathan Worthington.
- Sparky::Plugin::Notify::Telegram by Spigell.
- PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring.
- JSON::Fast by Timo Paulsen.
- IRC::Client::Plugin::UrlTitle by Patrick Spek.
Winding Down
A week with relatively little happening in the Perl 6 core, but all the more outside of it, judging by the number of tweets and the number of new / updated modules in the ecosystem. With the release now out of the door, a backlog of optimizations will see the spotlight in the week to come. Hopefully giving some really good news next week. See you then!
Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6) 
I think you missed the update of DBIish … Jonathan fixed multi-threading for SQLite in particular and some general mt-issues as well.
Indeed I did. Will mention it next week. Problem is that I cannot easily see updates to modules that are not on CPAN. CPAN uploads generate a tweet on https://twitter.com/perl6_cpan_new and are thus easier to follow. For modules in the old ecosystem, I would have to check each repo separately every week 😦
Also, if you have something noteworthy that you think I might miss, please do a “weekly: whatever it is you want to let me know” on #perl6, and I will see it semi-automatically when I work on the P6W.