Author Archives: jnthnwrthngtn

A few weeks back, I put out a call for funding. So far, two generous individuals have stepped up to help, enabling me to spend much more time on Perl 6 than would otherwise have been possible. First in line … Continue reading →

Note for regular 6guts readers: this post isn’t about Perl 6 guts themselves, but rather about seeking funding for my Perl 6 work. It is aimed at finding medium-size donations from businesses who are interested in supporting Perl 6, Rakudo, … Continue reading →

The latest MoarVM release, 2017.04, contains a significant improvement for multi-threaded applications, especially those that are CPU-bound. I mentioned the improvement briefly on Twitter, because it’s hard to be anything other than brief on Twitter. This post contains a decidedly … Continue reading →

We got a lot of nice stuff into Perl 6.c, the version of the language released on Christmas of 2015. Since then, a lot of effort has gone on polishing the things we already had in place, and also on … Continue reading →

I did a number of things for Perl 6 yesterday. It was not, however, hard to decide which of them to write up for the blog. So, let’s dig in. Horrible hiding heisenbugs It all started when I was looking … Continue reading →

When I popped up with a post here on Perl 6 OO a few days ago, somebody noted in the comments that they missed my write-ups of my bug hunting and fixing work in Rakudo and MoarVM. The good news … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a couple of years, but somehow never quite got around to it. Today, the topic of mutator methods came up again on the #perl6 IRC channel, and – at long last – … Continue reading →