The Perl 6 Weekly has been renamed to the Rakudo Weekly and can be found at: Thank you for visiting the Perl 6 Weekly the past years. It was a blast! Please adjust your RSS readers, email noti…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
Larry Wall emerged, almost like a deus ex machina, to give his approval of changing the name of the Perl 6 Programming Language to “Raku”. This stirred up quite some reactions on t…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
JJ Merelo is the proud writer of the latest Perl 6 book: Perl 6 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, the Core Modules, and the Community. A book packed with useful info…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
Jonathan Worthington explains why he got a lump in his throat when he approved changing the name of “Perl 6” to “Raku”. Feelings that yours truly (like many others) onl…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
Damian Conway had an itch, and he scratched it in “Itch.scratch()”. An extensive treatise on how to extend the Perl 6 Programming Language, giving the for loop an else block to be execu…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
Timo Paulssen published a report about his work on the MoarVM Heap Snapshot Profiler of the past months. This is an excellent tool that is already being used by MoarVM / Rakudo core developers to t…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
With a tweet, Curtis “Ovid” Poe made it known to the world that he had written up his view on the proposal to rename Perl 6. And from then, it went sort of viral in the IT community wit…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
While the ferry is slowly exiting the Cherbourg harbour en route to Dublin (trying out an alternate route to Ireland from mainland Europe without having to enter the UK), yours truly found some tim…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
Yes, the Perl 6 Weekly is back. If there is one thing yours truly has learned, that it is not a good idea to skip 2 issues. Once, in the past, maybe. But nowadays, it just almost gets too much to p…| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)
Shortly after the 2019.07 Rakudo compiler release, it was discovered that it has some issues with the build system that affect packaging. At the same time, some important stability and reliability …| Weekly changes in and around Raku (Née Perl 6)