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It’s already been almost a week and a half since I returned from the Moving To Moose Hackathon. Annoyingly, the first thing that happened on my return is that I got sick. This has combined badly with a very busy … Continue reading →

I’m currently in the midst of a 2-week chunk of time focused on Perl stuff. It started with the Perl Reunification Summit, which I’ll write more about in a future post, and was followed by YAPC::Europe in Frankfurt. After about … Continue reading →

In my previous post I mentioned that the work to get Rakudo using QAST was going nicely. QAST is a refreshed abstract syntax tree design and implementation, written in NQP (the Perl 6 subset we write much of Rakudo in) … Continue reading →

It’s been a little while since I wrote anything here. After all the work getting the new regex engine bootstrapped and alternations having longest token matching semantics, I’ve been taking things just a little bit easier. Only a little bit … Continue reading →

This month’s Rakudo development work has already seen us switch to the new QRegex grammar engine for parsing Perl 6 source, unifying it with the mechanism for user-space grammars and regexes. A week and a bit on, another major improvement … Continue reading →

In my last post – just two days ago – I talked about how the work to switch Rakudo over to using QRegex for parsing Perl 6 source was going well. I guessed there was a 90% chance we’d land … Continue reading →

I planned to blog when I finished hacking on Rakudo stuff today. The headline has shifted about three times during the day, however, as I was able to make progress much faster than expected. Well, also because I was having … Continue reading →

Last time I got around to writing here was while I was at the Oslo Hackathon. It was a truly great event: hugely productive, a great deal of fun and a real motivation booster too. I’d like to again thank … Continue reading →

I’m in Oslo with a bunch of Perl 6 folks. It’s great to see old friends and meet some new ones – and we’re having a highly productive time. After a wonderful evening of tasty food and lovely beer (amongst … Continue reading →

So, I’m back from vacation. Turns out Argentina is a pretty awesome place to vacation in, too. As well as wonderful food and delicious imperial stout (amongst other good beers), there was walking like this… …and other cool stuff, like … Continue reading →