- First name
- Jonathan
- Last name
- Worthington
- Nickname
- jnthn
- Country
- Czech Republic
- City
- Prague
- Birth year
- 1985
- Company
- Edument Central Europe sro.
- Web site
- http://www.jnthn.net/
- PAUSE ID
- JNTHN
- GitHub
- jnthn
- PM group
- Prague.pm
- Perl versions
- 🐪 Perl 5, 🦋 Perl 6
- Bio
- Jonathan is a key contributor to Perl 6 development. He is the founder and architect of MoarVM, serves as a lead Rakudo Perl 6 developer, and designed many of the Perl 6 concurrency features. He is also architect of the Cro libraries for building distributed systems in Perl 6, and founder of the Comma Perl 6 IDE.
Jonathan works at Edument, a company providing high quality developer training and mentoring, as well as software design and development in a range of technologies - including, of course, Perl!
In his free time, Jonathan enjoys cooking Indian food, drinking craft beer, photography, and train travel.
Talks submitted by Jonathan Worthington
Perl 6 performance update — 45 minutes; accepted — August 7 (Wed), Room $, 14:20
A look at the performance of the Rakudo/MoarVM implementation of Perl 6 today, considering how various language features perform, explaining some of the key optimizations that take place, and looking at the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Keynote Day 3: Perl 6 Concurrency — 60 minutes; accepted — August 9 (Fri), Room $, 10:10