The Third Raku Conference is less than three weeks away (28 October). It turns out that Andrew Shitov has reduced the attendee price to 0. So you will just need to sign up! Also, talk submission is still open but not for very long anymore!

The past week saw the acceptance of the following additional presentations:

• Raku Steering Council Q&A
• Raku In A Real Life Work Project by Vadim Belman.

Wenzel’s Corner

Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer tries to strain Raku to the max in Spawnratelimiting.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #238 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• RakuAST: Fix broken test
• RakuAST: Implement FIRST using AST

Core Developments

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen simplified the process of creating localized versions of Raku, and fixed an issue with actions not getting called when parsing a grammar.
• JJ Merelo provided the first version of an Italian localization.
• Ab5tract fixed some edge cases of whatever currying, added specialized handling for arguments of whatevercode blocks, and fixed some issues with FIRST phasers.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 109/148 (make test +0) and 960/1358 (make spectest +2).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• The thing I like about Raku by Daniel.
• Could organize a conference there by Claudio Ramirez.
• Love how it looks and feels by Paul Buetow.
• Making it easy to make natural interactions by Kay Rhodes.
• Playing with it in Raku by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Slangify rulez hard! by Massa Humberto.
• Playing with OTPish by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Loving terse readability by Samuel Chase.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• The best syntactic implementation of regular expressions by Barry Keeling.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Well, this is disappointing by Sean McAfee.
• Raku. how 102 uses! by ToddAndMargo.

Comments

• What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023 on Hacker News.
• Unicode overview on Lobste.rs.
• Drove me to learn Raku by Hillel Wayne.

New Raku Modules

• Getopt::Long::Grammar “Parsing getopt and argparser parameter specs” by Anton Antonov.

Updated Raku Modules

• Pakku by Haytham Elganiny.
• Mi6::Helper By Tom Browder.
• WebDriver2 by zjhmoss.
• LLM::Prompts by Anton Antonov.
• GLib by Clifton Wood.
• Net::LibIDN2, DateTime::Format, Games::BubbleBreaker by Márton Polgár.
• Subsets::Common, Net::IP::Parse, WebService::AWS::Auth::V4, Hash::Consistent by Brad Clawsie.
• License::SPDX by Jonathan Stowe.
• IO::String by JJ Merelo.
• Jupyter::Kernel by Brian Duggan.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.

Winding down

Looking forward to the Conference even more! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work!

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