YAPC::EU 2010 workshop notes

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Topics for discussion at YAPC::EU 2010:

Discussion ideas:

Rakudo Star review – what was good, what can be improved for further releases?
Possibility of backends other than parrot
- what options do we have?
- how much effort would it be?
- how much would be profit from it?
- what about risks?
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

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