Author Archives: jnthnwrthngtn

I’m just back from a trip to the German Perl Workshop. Of course, the food was great and the beer was greater. :-) I was also very happy to see various Rakudo hackers in person; moritz++ was one of the … Continue reading →

I’ve just cut the February 2012 release of Rakudo Star. The good news is that we got a bunch of nice improvements into the release. More typed exceptions, and better backtraces. This work has been done by moritz++; I’ll simply … Continue reading →

Here’s a quick roundup of some of the things that have been going on in Rakudo since the January release. Bounded Serialization This is where I’ve been focusing the majority of my efforts. At the moment, when we pre-compile Perl … Continue reading →

So, we made it – a Rakudo Star release based on the “nom” development branch has landed. It’s based on the compiler release moritz++ cut earlier this week, and pmichaud++, masak++ and myself have been involved in getting the Star-specific … Continue reading →

So, 2012 is here, and here’s my first Perl 6 post of the year. Welcome! :-) Looking Back 2011 brought us a faster Rakudo with vastly improved meta-programming capabilities, the first work on exploring native types in Perl 6, the … Continue reading →

On Thursday, tadzik++ cut release #46 of Rakudo. This time, we named it for the London Perl Mongers, organizers of this year’s outstanding and very well attended London Perl Workshop. I’d not been to one for a couple of years, … Continue reading →

Over the weekend, I visited to Bratislava for a few days, the beautiful city I once called home. It felt oddly familiar, and I found myself noticing all kinds of little changes here and there – where one shop had … Continue reading →

For some weeks now, I’ve been working on adding an optimizer pass to Rakudo and implementing an initial set of optimizations. The work has been taking place in a branch, which I’m happy to have just merged into our main … Continue reading →

The time for some shiny new hardware came around. Sat next to me, purring decidedly more quietly that its predecessor, is my new main development machine: a quad core Intel Core i7, pimped out with 16 GB of RAM and … Continue reading →

So, YAPC has come, been great, gone and been recovered from, I’m done with my summer visiting, the $dayjob speaking trip has taken place, I’ve shaken off the obligatory start of autumn cold and it’s time to get back to … Continue reading →