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This month’s Rakudo compiler was cut today, and there’s a bunch of good stuff in there. In this post I’ll take a quick look at what’s been done. MoarVM Support This is the first Rakudo compiler release to have support … Continue reading →

Almost exactly a month ago, I reported that Rakudo on MoarVM could do “Hello, world”. Despite the general slow-down as folks took Christmas and New Year breaks (myself very much included), progress has been very good. Here are the key … Continue reading →

I’ve been rather snowed under with work in November, thus the absence of posts here. Sorry about that. It turns out the sales folks at $dayjob did their job a little too well, and besides my own heavy teaching load I … Continue reading →

I thought it was high time for a round-up of news about the Perl 6 related stuff that I’ve been working on – as usual, with the help of many others. So, here goes! MoarVM Backend in NQP master In … Continue reading →

A little over a month ago, lizmat++ contacted my employer, Edument AB, to discuss using our training services to deliver a 2-day workshop aimed at current and potential Rakudo and NQP contributors. For those of you who don’t know, aside … Continue reading →

A while back, I wrote here to introduce the MoarVM project, which aims to build a Virtual Machine specially tailored for the needs of NQP and Rakudo. Since then, a lot of progress has been made and the project has attracted … Continue reading →

I’m just back from this year’s YAPC Europe in Kiev. I’ve liked Kiev since the first time I visited many years ago, and after around two years since the last visit, I was glad of an excuse to return. It … Continue reading →

Last time I wrote, the Rakudo on JVM port was passing around 92% of the specification tests that Rakudo on Parrot can. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve continued hunting down and fixing failures. I’m happy to report that … Continue reading →

In the spirit of “release early, release often”, last month’s Rakudo compiler release was the first one to come with very basic support for running on the JVM. It supported a small number of the features that Rakudo on Parrot … Continue reading →

Over the course of the last year, we’ve been working to make both NQP and Rakudo more portable. This has primarily been done to enable the JVM porting work. While the JVM is an important platform to target, and initial … Continue reading →