Originally published at Perl Weekly 782
Hi there,
Finally we had maintenance release of Perl v5.44 on 15th July. This is the first release which I watched the process very closely by joining the P5P Mailing List. I have high respect to each core member. The amount of work that goes into each release is unbelievable. They discuss every minute details before commit. It's fascinating just reading the discussion. You get to know so many different aspects. The best part is anyone can take part in the discussion. Feel free to share your concern and suggestion. I am sure you will get instant response from one of the core team members.
As I am talking about Perl release, I came across something very interesting, Parallel Perl. It is also referred as pperl. As documented, it is next-generation Perl 5 runtime written in Rust, with JIT and auto-parallelization. If I am not wrong, Perl is written in C, does that mean Rust is the new C? I don't know either of them enough to read the source code. Rust has been making some noise in the Perl community.
Another big announcement by Salve J. Nilsen about the April Task Force. It sounds very heavy loaded. It is nice to see TPRF taking the security matter seriously. With the dedicated team, we are in a safe hands.
