Author Archives: jnthnwrthngtn

It’s been a little while since I wrote an update here, and with a spare moment post-teaching I figured it was a nice time to write one. I was lucky enough to end up being sent to the arctic (or, … Continue reading →

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 →