Author Archives: jnthnwrthngtn

In the Perl world I’m mostly known as a guy who hacks on Perl 6 stuff. Less known is that outside of the Perl world, I spend a lot of my time with the .Net platform. C#, despite a rather … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I wrote an update here. Happily, timotimo has taken up the role of being our weekly Perl 6 reporter, so there’s a good place to follow for regular updates. However, I wanted to take a moment to … Continue reading →

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 →