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I followed the link to r/perl and was pleasantly surprised to see a link to "Perl Weekly Challenges" that seems to be quite active.
I never participated in the Perl golf on account of me being totally lost or the Perl programming challenges of yore, but I was pretty active with the Pull Request Challenge when it was going. I got a lot out of it and I strongly encouraged any Perl programmers at $WORK I happened to be mentoring at the time to get involved. Some did, and it was very beneficial for them as well.
In any case, it's no PRC but it looks like the PWCs have been active for quite a few months. Not sure if this is news, but it is new to me. And I don't see how it's fake even tho I found it on leddit, so here you go!
Allow me to introduce Intramine, an intranet service suite for Windows done in Strawberry Perl and JavaScript that provides sub-second local search of your half a million or more source and text files, among other things.
Some other things:
five-second index update when you change a file, to keep searches current
automatic linking for all source and text and image file mentions, with minimal overhead (often none)
a really nice file Viewer to browse your files, and see search hits in full context (plus that automatic linking)
image hovers in your source and text files
Gloss, a markdown variant specifically for intranet use that takes advantage of autolinking and minimizes "computer friendly" overhead
scalable services: write your own IntraMine service, with or without a front end, and run multiple instances that can talk to other services
Search, Viewer, and Linker service support for 137 programming languages, as well as plain text
Per discussion with Sawyer, the current Perl pumpking, the current plan is that Cor will go into the Perl core. Unlike previous attempts, this one looks like it will really happen. So get your feedback in now.
To give you a little taste, here's a simple LRU cache written in Cor.
class Cache::LRU {
use Hash::Ordered;
has $cache :handles(get) :builder;
has $max_size :new(optional) :reader :isa(PositiveInt) = 20;
has $created :reader = time;
method _build_cache () { Hash::Ordered->new }
method set ( $key, $value ) {
if ( $cache->exists($key) ) {
$cache->delete($key);
}
elsif ( $cache->keys > $max_size ) {
$cache->shift;
}
$cache->set( $key, $value ); # new values in front
}
}
Due to COVID-19, the organizers of the conference have agreed to cancel the event. For both safety as well as with the expectation that a new rule closing organized events over 3 people until June in the Netherlands has made the conferene this year untenable. The conference will continue in 2021 (likely to be in August just as this year was scheduled for). We are looking into the possibility of a remote conference sometime this summer in collaboration with the American conference.
"Performance Concurrency with the Perl Many-Core Engine"
A talk on MCE and MCE::Shared, introducing the main features and usage of this powerful framework to parallelize your Perl code and turbo-charge your programs by harnessing the power of all the cores on your machine.
Date: Wednesday March 25, 2020
Time: 1800 EDT (GMT-4)
Fellow monks, I prepared this talk (with the assistance of marioroy, the author of the modules) for the Perl Conference 2020 where I was scheduled to present it. Today that conference was cancelled, as has been the Baltimore/DC Perlyglot Workshop where it was also on the schedule. I was scheduled to give the talk at the Charlotte, NC Perlmongers meeting tomorrow; that meeting has been moved on line. The Charlotte.pm organizer cromedome has allowed me to share the link, so if you have any interest in MCE please join us!
Thanks!
The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
Monks. I am very sorry posting this on behalf of Liz here on Perlmonks. She just published a gist with sad news:
Our dear friend Jeff Goff has died in a scuba diving accident. He told me and many others about how he looked forward to learning more about scuba diving, getting more experienced in it, during the JoCo Cruise ( https://jococruise2020.sched.com/jeff_goff.1zitf4ff ). Apparantly, something went horribly wrong.
I have spent many hours with Jeff, not in the least when he broke his hip in Spain during the Perl conference in Granada, and I took it upon me to take care of several things for him. He has stayed as a guest at least twice in my home. I have learned to know Jeff as a warm, loving man, with a great sense of humor, wonderful ideas, and always helpful. Last time I saw him when he took over from me at the Perl & Raku booth at FOSDEM in Brussels.
Needless to say, but it needs to be said anyway: Liz and I will miss him terribly. The Perl & Raku communities will miss him dearly, as he was one volunteer who has done a lot of things to make things happen, to make things better.
Please do not contact his mother or other family with requests about how the accident happened. Please wait for more information about what actually happened, it will be presented when we have it.
If you want to send condolences to the family, please do so to the following address:
c/o Family Goff
PO Box 118
St. Ignatius, MT 59865
USA
StackOverflow Developer Survey 2020 is now open, as announced in their blog! This year, they're asking about other online communities, so we can remind the rest of the world about PerlMonks.
The proposed concept already has an implementation (XS::Install, XS::Framework), which we internally use on production more then one year. We plan to release on CPAN rather wide, deep and efficient hierarchy of our XS-modules, but it will take some time due to need of documentation, API stabilization etc.
Early adopters, questions, or any feed back are welcome!
Komodo IDE by ActiveState with Perl support is now free, at least according to its page. You need to create a "Platform Account" first which I didn't, so I can't report on what it involves.
The Perl Foundation (TPF) exists to support the Perl community and all the people within our community, including the newly renamed Raku;
the name change doesn’t alter the nature of our involvement or support with Raku.
The Grants Committee will continue to accept grant proposals for Perl 5, Raku, and other Perl-family projects work as before.
TPF will continue to encourage development of Perl and Raku events, workshops and hackathons and generally support the global communities.
The Perl Conference (TPC) will also continue to accept presentation proposals for all Perl-family languages, including Perl 5 and Raku.
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