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It’s time for another progress update on the ongoing JVM work. Last time I posted here, we’d reached the point of having a self-hosting NQP ready to merge into the master branch of the NQP repository. That has now happened, … Continue reading →

The work to get NQP running and bootstrapped on the JVM has reached an interesting milestone, and I thought I’d take a few moments from working on it to talk about what has taken place since my last post here, … Continue reading →

Having just reached an interesting milestone, I thought I’d blog a quick progress update on my work to port NQP to the JVM, in preparation for also doing a port of Rakudo Perl 6. The big news is that the … Continue reading →

After my last post giving a status update on the JVM porting of NQP and the compiler toolchain Rakudo builds upon, hercynium++ left a comment suggesting that I also blog about the design work behind this effort. I liked the … Continue reading →

Things have been moving along quite rapidly on the JVM backend since my last post. Sadly, I’m too sick to hack on anything much this evening (hopefully, this turns out to be a very temporary affliction…) but I can at … Continue reading →

Seems it’s high time for some news here. It’s not that I didn’t do any blogging about Perl 6 in December; it’s just that all of those posts were over on the Perl 6 advent calendar. Anyway, now it’s a … Continue reading →

The November release is still a couple of weeks off, but it’s already looking like one of the most exciting ones in a while. Here’s a rundown of the major improvements you can expect. User Defined Operator Improvements The way … Continue reading →

A while ago I wrote about Rakudo getting an interactive debugger. The feedback I’ve got has been a happy mixture of “this is useful” and “I’d really like it to X” – so I’ve been working on some improvements. I … Continue reading →

I do a lot of my talking about working on the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler inside the Perl community. Happily, I’ll be able to talk about my experiences doing so to a much more general audience soon: I’ve had a … Continue reading →

Three years ago I paid a visit to Japan to attend YAPC::Asia. It was also my first time in Japan, and so in addition to a very enjoyable and well attended Perl conference, I got to enjoy the incredible Japanese … Continue reading →