Timo Paulssen has written an introduction into the work on partial escape analysis, scalar replacement and inlining and the progress on the new profiler (as a progress report on his TPF grant). Interesting stuff, with some comments on Reddit, with even more in-depth explanations. A good read!

Hello Perl 6

Mohammad S Anwar, of Map::Tube fame and one of the most (if not the most) persistent Pull Request Challenge participant, has taken the big leap. He describes his progress in a very nice blog post (/r/perl, /r/perl6 comments).

PerlCon in Pittsburgh

The Perl Conference in Pittsburgh (the conference formerly known as YAPC::NA) has published their monthly update. Be sure to submit your talk proposals before March 1st! Mark your calendar for 18 – 20 June for the conference, and 16/17 and 21 June if you want to take any of the additional workshops!

PerlCon in Riga

The Perl Conference in Riga (the conference formerly known as YAPC::Europe) has announced a a two day “Beginning Perl 6” workshop by Arne Sommer. And then there’s also a one day “Perl 6 Concurrency and Parallelism” by Jonathan Worthington. Check it all out at the event website. And mark you calendar: 7 – 9 August for the conference, 5 and 6 August for the workshops. And be sure to show your manager the promotion video!

Perl Weekly Challenge

Mohammad S Anwar was really at it this week: he also proposed re-inventing a Perl Weekly Challenge. And that could be both Perl 5 as well as Perl 6! Read the blog to find out how you can participate!

Squashathon

It’s the time of the month again this coming weekend: Squashathon time. This time the focus will be on making sure that all new 6.d features of Perl 6 are properly represented in the documentation. If you like looking up and fixing stuff, this is for you. And the winner will get a plush Camelia sent to them, wherever in the world!

Solving Perl 6 Problems

Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev has started a repository to be used for working on all issues that require discussion and/or consensus with regards to the development of Perl 6. The first issue describes the intended process. Highly recommended reading and food for thought.

T-shirts Galore

Wendy van Dijk has too many T-shirts, and she wants to see them all find a good home. (Reddit, Facebook comments).

Bennie in Brussels

Bennie describes her visit to FOSDEM and the presentation about the various Perl projects, by Will Braswell.

Core Developments

Ticket status of last week.

Jonathan Worthington fixed various inlining issues.

fixed various inlining issues. Stefan Seifert fixed a pesky issue with read/write arguments in native calls if the JIT compilation bailed because of unsupported opcodes.

fixed a pesky issue with read/write arguments in native calls if the JIT compilation bailed because of unsupported opcodes. Paweł Murias continued his work on the Javascript backend.

continued his work on the Javascript backend. Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed a problem with negative values in Date arithmetic, and she fixed a problem with using = (assignment) as an infix meta-operator.

fixed a problem with negative values in arithmetic, and she fixed a problem with using (assignment) as an infix meta-operator. Nick Logan added support for CircleCI.

added support for CircleCI. And some smaller fixes and tweaks in preparation of the Rakudo Compiler release.

Questions about Perl 6

Only 16 questions to go before the 1000th Perl 6 question is asked on StackOverflow!

Meanwhile on Facebook

Camelia Cookies! by Wendy van Dijk .

. Running inside PostgreSQL by Jeff Goff.

Meanwhile on Twitter

Perl 6 in comments

Perl 6 Modules

New modules (including some yours truly missed last week):

App::SixLib by cygx .

. Avolution::Emoji by Simon Harms .

. HTML::Canvas::To::PDF by David Warring .

. Calculator by Mohammad S Anwar .

. Grid by Haytham Elganiny .

. Desktop::Notify::Progress by Fernando Santagata .

. Test::Script::Output by JJ Merelo.

Updated modules:

GTK::V3, GTK::Glade by Marcel Timmerman .

. Font::FreeType, PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring .

. Algorithm::Evolutionary::Simple by JJ Merelo .

. RPi::Device::PiGlow, License::SPDX, JSON::Infer, Test::META by Jonathan Stowe .

. POFile by Jonathan Worthington .

. Date::Names by Tom Browder .

. ANTLR4::Grammar, Perl6::Parser, Perl6::Tidy, Grammar::Common, Readline by Jeff Goff.

Winding Down

What a nice week with many new and updated Perl 6 modules! While writing this, the final touches are being applied for the next Rakudo Compiler release. More about that next week! See you then!