Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v24
This is release number 24 of Niecza Perl 6, marking 24 months since the first
public release. How time flies.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you wish to follow latest developments,
you can obtain the source from [2]; however, you still need a
binary for bootstrapping.
Niecza is a Perl 6 compiler project studying questions about the
efficient implementability of Perl 6 features. It currently targets
the Common Language Runtime; both Mono and Microsoft .NET are known to
work. On Windows, Cygwin is required for source builds only; see the
README for details.
List of changes
[Bug fixes]
.classify and .categorize now return hashes. (Solomon Foster)
qx// is now sandboxed. (Solomon Foster)
[Features]
Added special functions gamma, expm1, log1p, erf, lgamma. (Solomon Foster,
using library code by John D. Cook)
Export $*CUSTOM-LIB for panda's use. (Solomon Foster)
Added Parcel.Array and List.Array. (Solomon Foster)
Postfix operaters which mimic methods can now be used. (Larry Wall)
Added functionality for a "precompiled system modules" folder, eliminating
the need for each user to separately compile the setting in a multi-user
install.
Added line editing to the REPL.
Added an install target for *nixes.
[Internal]
Niecza has been significantly refactored to use a single instance of the
kernel during compilation, opening the door to direct object sharing
between the compiler and the runtime and significantly simplifying the
bootstrap procedure.
Getting involved
Contact sorear in irc.freenode.net #perl6 or via the sender address of
this mailing.
[1] https://github.com/downloads/sorear/niecza/niecza-24.zip
[2] https://github.com/sorear/niecza
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