What's happening with Perl in the last week.
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This morning at The Perl Conference in the Cloud, Sawyer X announced that Perl has a new plan moving forward. Work on Perl 7 is already underway, but it's not going to be a huge change in code or syntax. It's Perl 5 with modern defaults and it sets…
The Perl Shopbrian d foy writes 'Sawyer X announced that Perl has a new plan moving forward...Perl 7 is...Perl 5 with modern defaults and it sets the stage for bigger changes later.'
It's been a few months since I looked at Raku. Last time I fiddled with it was when the language finally took the leap and renamed itself from Perl 6 to Raku. Heck, I'm still in the old Perl 6 GitHub organization, and I parted ways before the new…
The Perl ShopEl Almacén (DataKinds) takes a look at the speed and usability of Raku in June 2020. He says he uses 'Ruby as a bit of a baseline for my judgments on Raku.' He looks at startup speed, memory use, and garbage collection.
I read the first chapters of perlxstut, minimalized the instructions a bit and adapted it to Dist::Zilla. Put a file into your project's top dir and name it after the last name of your package, here Diaries.xs: The include file ppport.h is…
The Perl ShopSteffen Schwigon (SCHWIGON) has written up a concise tutorial on creating C code libraries (via XS) for Perl, using Dist::Zilla as a helper, called 'Diary of learning XS.'
I've been working on some Raku projects, but each of them is just too small to make an individual blog post about. So, I decided to just pack them together in a slightly larger blog post instead. A friend on IRC asked if it was possible to get…
The Perl ShopPatrick 'tyil' Spek compiles several brief write-ups of smaller Raku projects that Patrick has been working on, including ARM builds of Rakudo Star, plugins for a Raku IRC bot, and using $=pod to embed a template in a script.
In 10 days the Conference in the Cloud will start! If you want to experience that interactively, you can still sign up, tickets are only 10 US$ ! You can even join the Hallway Track ! These are the presentations with Raku content: Doccing Raku by…
The Perl ShopAn updated list of Raku conference talks; a primer on the Topic variable; black box testing; and more...
Latest releases New distributions Recent Favorites Popular Distributions Weekly Yearly All Time Recent Uploads River gauge Release Test-DependentModules-0.27 Test all modules which depend on your module 19 Jan 2019 22:15:21 GMT…
The Perl ShopImportant updates at CPAN last week include Perl-Tidy-20200619, Mojolicious-8.55, DBD-Pg-3.13.0, Alien-Build-2.26, Test-File-1.443_03, Imager-1.012, CPAN-2.28.
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