2016.01.12 in #234Why in The World Would Anyone Use Perl 6?
Zoffix's passionate support for Perl 6, in response to the brouhaha. He's having fun with Perl 6, and thinks many other people will too.
2016.01.14 in #234The Perl 6 User Experience
Prompted by all the discussion and snarky comments, Zoffix has started a repository where he's trying to bring together a high-level description of "the Perl 6 experience": how to present and talk about 6.
2016.01.21 in #235Perl 6 is written in... Perl 6
Have you every been afraid of touching the Perl 5 core because you did not want to touch C? That's over with Perl 6 where, at least in the case of Rakudo, most of it is written in Perl 6. discuss on Reddit
2016.01.27 in #236Bit Rot Thursday
Entropy waits for no-one. Every distribution released on CPAN, if left to itself, will slowly mush away. So what one should do? Fight the inexorable advance of decay? Give up? Embrace the chaos? Zoffix discusses those many paths.
2016.01.28 in #236100+ Modules for Adoption! (Bit Rot Thursday)
Zoffix is going through an early Spring cleaning. He deleted a few of his old distributions, and put a bunch (and I really mean a /bunch/) of other up for adoption.
2016.04.08 in #246On Perl 6 performance
Zoffix addresses the issue of Perl 6's performance, whether the general perception of it is right. He mentions some recent recent work to start making things faster, and various language features you can use to make your Perl 6 run faster.
2016.04.28 in #249Extra-Typical Perl 6
Zoffix shows some of the ways you can extend core types in Perl 6.
2016.05.03 in #250There Are Traitors In Our Midst!
No, no need to panic. Malicious moles haven't been discovered living amongst us. This is merely a (very nice) introduction to Perl 6 traits.
2016.05.20 in #252Perl 6 Hands-On Workshop: Weatherapp (Part 1)
Zoffix continues his excellent Perl 6 evangelism. This is the first of a series working on the development of a tool to get weather information from web services.
2016.06.25 in #257Exploiting Perl 6 Code From Down The Dependency Chain
Half the battle is knowing thyne enemie's dirty tricks. Here, how malicious dependencies (or dependencies of our dependencies) could unleash evil to our codebase is explored.
2017.06.06 in #307COMPLETION Report / Perl 6 IO TPF Grant
Zoffix has completed his work on standardisation, test coverage, and documentation of Perl 6 I/O routines, which was supported by a grant. Read about what he did.
2017.08.28 in #319You're invited: Community Bug SQUASHathon
On the first Saturday of every month, the Rakudo gang plan to have a bug squashathon. The first one was on the Saturday just gone, but you've got plenty of notice for the next one.
2017.09.17 in #321The Rakudo Book Project
Zoffix is working on 5 books: The White Book with introductory material and from there on you get deeper and deeper in Rakudo as the color of the book darkens first to gray and then to black. There two additional 'half-books': The Green Book for the absolute beginners as a prelude to the White book and The Cracked is for those who want to go beyond Black.
2017.09.28 in #3236lang: The Naming Discussion Update
Interesting further thoughts on how Perl 6 is going to be called. Even more comments on Redit. I really like the 'slang' in it! I think it provides the appropriate amount of confusion to start a conversation.
2017.10.06 in #324 CPAN6 is here
Perl 6 finally gets support for CPAN! It's usable, and you should start using it at once!
2017.10.27 in #327Main Development Branch Renamed from 'nom' to 'master'
In case you were following the development of Rakudo, the most advanced implementation of Perl 6, you know they used an unusually-named main development branch called 'nom'. That was now switched to 'master' to align with the default expectation.
2018.01.19 in #339Long Live Perl 5!
Zoffix, a well know proponent of Perl 6 tried to further clarify what the Perl community might think about the subject.
2018.02.05 in #3422018.06 Whatever FOSDEM Squashed
Perl 6 Weekly, guest-written by Zoffix, with some notes on core developments, the Squashathon, and a little bit about FOSDEM
2018.02.20 in #344Perl 6: On Specs, Versioning, Changes, and... Breakage
Zoffix gives us a cheese metaphor for the Perl 6 specification--it's full of holes! Ongoing development work fills those holes, and iteratively refines the specification.
2018.04.16 in #352WANTED: Perl 6 Historical Items
Collecting items from various web sites, SVN and Git repositories, and from the hard disk of people who were involved in the development of Perl 6.
2018.07.04 in #363The Missing Contributors of Perl 6
How the Perl 6 release managers have omitted more than 30 contributors and why only one complained about it on Reddit?
2018.07.29 in #366Intro Into Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars
Incredible insights into Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars by our very own Perl 6 guru, Zoffix. It was presented last week at the Toronto Perl Mongers.
2018.07.29 in #366Faster Perl 6 Programs
Zoffix gave talk on "Faster Perl 6 Programs" at the Toronto Perl Mongers. It is must watch for every Perl enthusiasts.
2018.08.06 in #368Introducing: Perl 6 Marketing Assets Web App
Team Perl 6 has setup repo for flyers and brochures for Perl 6. It is a great initiative, Team Perl 5 should do something similar imho.
2018.08.09 in #368The 100 Day Plan: The Update on Perl 6.d Preparations
Zoffix shares the 100 day plan for Raduko Perl 6 compiler release. The code name for the next major release of Perl 6 language, is called Diwali, which is a festival of lights, celebrated by Indians.
2018.10.07 in #376Alias for Perl 6
Zoffix re-opened the issue with the blog, requesting Larry Wall to create a language name alias for Perl 6.
2018.11.05 in #381Announce: Raku Perl 6 'Diwali' 6.d Language Specification Release
It is a huge step for the deveopment of Perl 6, but for most of us it is 'just' a document. Once we'll have the Rakudo compile that will be the bigger issue. Still you might want to read ahead on what will be in this new version that will be released within a few weeks.