Out of the blue again, Hillel Wayne has posted a nice blog post about the handling of command-line arguments in the Raku Programming Language: Raku is surprisingly good for CLIs (/r/rakulang, lobste.rs, HackerNews comments)

Raku Conference

The Third Raku Conference was well attended. The videos of the presentations will appear online in the coming days!

An Ultimate Guide About Raku Programming Language

Mohini Saxena has written a rather extensive, although unfortunately rather ad-ridden, blog post introducing the Raku Programming Language: An Ultimate Guide About Raku Programming Language.

Steve’s Corner

Steve Roe published two blog posts this week, of which one of them is pure poetry:

• Home on the Range
• genius

Wenzel’s Corner

Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer also had a thing to say about Ranges: Incomplete Ranges.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #241 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• RakuAST: Don’t drop out empty lines where they a part of the text
• Don’t emit warnings when trying to access non-existent file

Core Developments

• Dan Green increased the accuracy of “stat” information on IO::Path objects to nanoseconds.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen added testing of localizations, added a localization argument to Str.AST and fixed an issue with augmenting classes.
• Ab5tract fixed an issue with custom infixes.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 111/150 (make test +1) and 978/1358 (make spectest +3).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• List comprehensions for the win by Massa Humberto.
• Its flexibly type system by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Unmatched regex capabilities by Daniel Böhmer.
• Probably not hiring for by Kay Rhodes.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Unexpected insight by JJ Merelo

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• is there an AI on the beginner chat line? by ToddAndMargo.

Questions about Raku

• Change custom infix operation to compile to something else by freddy.
• interfere WhateverCode generation but instead pass literally Whatever to custom infix operator by freddy.
• Will some kind person show me a Raku script that displays .zsh_history files in the manner of the history command. by vfclists.
• How to debug cro installation with zef by zb226.
• Why does this make my program slower? by InterviewPrevious247.

Comments

• Very yucky! by theangrypicbanana.
• Learning Raku this weekend by MaskRay.

New Raku Modules

• Cro::FCGI “FastCGI support for Cro” by Patrick Böker.
• Math::Interval “A noddy implementation of Interval Arithmetic using raku Ranges” by Steve Roe.
• App::Workflows::Github “The CI/CD workflow collection for Raku” by rcmlz.
• Net::Postgres::Abstract “Abstractly and asynchronously querying your postgresql database” by Leon Timmermans.

Updated Raku Modules

• Text::CSV by H.Merijn Brand.
• Mi6::Helper by Tom Browder.
• Raylib::Bindings by Dan Vu.
• PDF::Tags by David Warring.
• App::Mi6 by Shoichi Kaji.
• App::Crag by Steve Roe.
• YAMLish by Leon Timmermans.
• LLM::Prompts by Anton Antonov.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.

Winding down

A cool set of new modules. And a successful conference. Apart from the world, a good week. Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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