Hillel Wayne has written another widely shared blog post about their use of the Raku Programming Language: this time about the difficulty of (mentally) generating truly random numbers in An RNG that runs in your brain (/r/rakulang, HackerNews, programming.dev, lobste.rs comments).

Rakudo Compiler Release

Justin DeVuyst has produced the first Rakudo compiler release of 2024: 2024.01. Binary packages have become available shortly after, as well as updates to Rakudo Star.

FOSDEM 2024

This weekend it’s FOSDEM time again! With two Raku presentations on Saturday 3 February in room K.3.401:

• At play with Raku by habere-et-dispertire.
• The Art of Concurrent Scripting with Raku by Brian Duggan.

Looking forward to the videos!

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov shows the use of AI to create geographical heat maps from publicly available sources in Heatmap plots over LLM scraped data (/r/rakulang comments).

Mike’s Corner

Mike Shah created a first impression video in which the Raku Programming Language is also mentioned.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #254 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Implement return prioritization (2nd try)
• Update quoting.rakudoc
• Ensure %!mro is not modified concurrently

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen continued documenting and streamlining Raku dispatchers.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A fun post by Michael Kohl.
• Practical Monads by Paul Buetow.
• Mental Arithmetic by Samuel Chase.
• RSV in Raku first by Kang-min Liu.
• Glueing with Raku by Paul Buetow.

Comments

• AKA Raku by Steve Roe.
• Where does the time go? by tmtvl.
• If Lisp is so great by metaxy2.
• A good impression of Lisp by Steve Roe.
• High and low level by WjU1fcN8.
• 15 years of programming language design by match_addict.
• One of twelve by Caleb Weeks.
• Raku has them by malmedal.
• A new mistake? by Ralph Mellor.
• Splitting in a text file by jubilatious1.
• Where did the wine go? by Steve Roe.

New Raku Modules

• Data::Geographics “Country data and city data” by Anton Antonov.
• Moneys “A library to facilitate using monetary values in Raku” by Arun Vickram.

Updated Raku Modules

• Gzz::Text::Utils, App::Doc-N-Save, App::fix.raku, Gzz::Prompt by Francis Grizzly Smit.
• Cro::HTTP by Jonathan Worthington.
• PDF::Font::Loader, PDF::Content by David Warring.
• Date::Names, Timezones::US, DateTime::US by Tom Browder.
• DSL::Entity::Geographics, JavaScript::D3, UML::Translators, DSL::English::ClassificationWorkflows, DSL::English::RecommenderWorkflows, DSL::Shared by Anton Antonov.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Red by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Marrow by Scott Sotka.

Winding down

Core-wise a quiet week in preparation for the release, but with a nice widely shared blog post! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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