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Rakudo 2011.08 release status

As noted in a previous post, we had planned to issue a new release of Rakudo sometime around YAPC::EU, based on the new nom branch. The nom branch is a substantial redevelopment of the Rakudo compiler, and generally shows a … Continue reading

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Rakudo Star 2011.07 released

Announce: Rakudo Star – a useful, usable, “early adopter” distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I’m happy to announce the July 2011 release of “Rakudo Star”, a useful and usable distribution of … Continue reading

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Upcoming Rakudo releases

Over the past 6+ months the Rakudo developers have been working on a new version of the Rakudo compiler (code named “nom”) that uses a new object model implementation, has lots of bugfixes, and contains many performance enhancements over the … Continue reading

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Rakudo Star (a “usable Perl 6″) to be released by July 29

As many of you know, last summer we announced that we would be releasing a “usable release of Rakudo Perl 6” to be called “Rakudo Star” in the second quarter of 2010. We later refined our target release date to … Continue reading

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A Rakudo * Update

Note: I neglected to cross-post this journal post to rakudo.org when I wrote it a couple of weeks ago; apologies. The last week has brought some sad news. While software is of course insignificant compared to life and health, and … Continue reading

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Hague grant work: the new regex engine and NQP

It’s been quite a while since I’ve written any articles about Rakudo’s progress, but the delay in articles has been because I’ve been really focused on code development for a number of things we’re going to need quickly for Rakudo … Continue reading

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The new Rakudo signature binder has landed

Since I got back from my travels in Asia – actually, as soon as I’d got a good night’s sleep after the long flight – I’ve been busily hacking away on my latest Hague Grant. In fact, I’ve done rather … Continue reading

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