One and a half weeks ago I had the honor of being part of the second Raku Core Summit. The summit took place from Friday the 6th of June to Monday the 9th of June. We were again invited to lizmat's home in Echt, NL.
A big thanks to Wendy for once again excellently providing food and drink throughout the days (we enjoyed an endless supply of cocktail tomatoes, strawberries and cherries).
And another big thanks to The Perl and Raku Foundation for sponsoring the event!
All in all we had a productive meeting, we indeed managed to cross out all entries on the big list of things we wanted to discuss and then we even had some time left for hacking on stuff.
I personally got answers to all the questions I brought:
- A pretty short discussion unblocked my work on variable argument support in NativeCall.
- Rakudo now bundles filenames, sources and source checksums with the compiled code making it available to debuggers. This unblocks my work on a TUI debugger frontend for Rakudo.
- We concluded that my work on return prioritization should be merged,
- as well as the new script wrappers.
On the first evening I gave a talk of how I envision the future of Raku. It's basically my Raku todo list and why I believe the things on that list are important. I think the talk resonated with most of the others.
Lastly we talked about how we want to get Raku 6.e released. The discussions resulted in a checklist of things we want and need to do prior to the release. (Some points of my vision talk made it onto that list, yay!) It's quite long, but I'm happy that we have a concrete list now.