YAPC::EU 2010 workshop notes

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The hackathon took place on 2010-08-03 at the venue, on the first floor in front of the “cpanel” room.

Notes of the actual discussions can be found on http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/notes-from-yapc-hackathon.html

Topics for discussion at YAPC::EU 2010:

Discussion ideas:

Rakudo Star review – what was good, what can be improved for further releases?
What are the major blockers to further adoption of Rakudo, and what can we do about them?
- Speed?
- Memory usage?
- Lack of modules?
- Missing features (which ones)?
Possibility of backends in addition to parrot
- What options do we have? (e.g. JVM, v8, .Net CLR, others?)
- How much effort would it be?
- How much would be profit from it?
- What about risks?
- How would we arrange the NQP and Rakudo repos for backend specific stuff?
- How do we re-work our pir::foo into portable things?
Providing rich, compile-time information in our syntax trees to enable optimizations, compile-time error detection and better error messages in general.
How to activate more lurkers
How to improve our documentation situation

Hacking ideas:

Database access (DBDI or MiniDBI, or maybe converge them)
Module infrastructure hacking (might have the advantage of offering some Perl 5 tasks, so that mostly uninitiated but willing perl 5 hackers
can help
semi-guided core hacking
get m// right, and :i and :s modifiers for m//, rx// and g//