Theo van Hoesel announced the FOSDEM Call for Participation for the dev room at FOSDEM 2024 (on 3-4 February, /r/rakulang comments). The TPRF organisers for FOSDEM are specifically looking for anyone with a compelling story to share about their Open Source project that has a strong background in Raku or Perl. Deadline for submissions is December 1st!

Steve’s Corner

Steve Roe took a recent discussion as a cue to look at the meaning of several mathematical operations on Ranges in Junctions for Interval Arithmetic.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #244 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Need github security policy

Core Developments

• Nick Logan prepared MoarVM for C11 atomics in MSVC.
• Vadim Belman fixed some aspects of using is default.
• And some smaller tweaks and fixes.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen implemented support for localization of methods such as TWEAK, ACCEPTS, COERCE.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 111/150 (make test +0) and 981/1358 (make spectest +0).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Interfacing with Postgres by Swagg Boi.
• Time to put my speaker’s hat on! by JJ Atria.
• Definitely (Maybe) by Kay Rhodes.
• Fixing some Eulers by Julia.
• Found a bug! by Julia.
• One-liners 243 by Massa Humberto.
• A few stragglers taking care of it by zabumbista.
• A weird data structure by Julia.
• Really nice error messages by Frost.
• Why can’t all languages have grammars? by mort.
• Another one-liner by Massa Humberto.
• Unknown by Curtis Poe.
• One-liners 244 by Massa Humberto.
• Batteries included language by Massa Humberto.
• Seems pretty impractical by Julia.

Comments

• On with / when by Ralph Mellor.
• Less readable by Ralph Mellor.
• Gradually on purpose by 7thaccount.
• CLI with multiple dispatch by Ralph Mellor.
• Failed to learn the lesson by Steve Roe.
• Focused on Raku madness by larodi.
• I am not a number! by Ralph Mellor.
• Loved by Kaamkiya.
• Post-declaration ok by Ralph Mellor.
• Several sublanguages by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• NQP as the intermediate by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• LLM::Containerization “Docker file, Cro Web API, and CLIs for packaging LLM functionalities” by Anton Antonov.
• Raygui::Bindings “Autogenerated raygui-raku bindings, powered by raku grammar and actions” by Dan Vu.
• HowToUseModuleResources “Demonstrates access to $?DISTRIBUTION “resources” for installed module distributions” by Tom Browder.

Updated Raku Modules

• Raylib::Bindings by Dan Vu.
• Tomty by Alexey Melezhik.
• ML::FindTextualAnswer, LLM::Functions by Anton Antonov.
• PDF::Tags, PDF::Tags::Reader by David Warring.
• Test::Async, AttrX::Mooish, JSON::Class by Vadim Belman.
• Digest::HMAC by JJ Merelo.
• Bitcoin::Core::Secp256k1 by Konstantin Narkhov.
• CSV-Autoclass by Tom Browder.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• OrderedHash by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.

Winding down

A bit of a quiet week in preparation for a release and advent blog posts! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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