For the past five+ years, Arne Sommer has been publishing blog posts about the Raku Programming Language just about every week. Usually as part of the Weekly Challenge, but also more generally about Raku, such as a project about a Stateless Quiz System. So kudos to Arne! Because it’s always to good to give kudos!

Raku Grants accepted!

The Grant Committee has accepted both recent Raku grant requests:

• Raku Ecosystem by Tony O’Dell.
• RakuAST over the finish line by Stefan Seifert.

This is really good news! It will allow Tony and Stefan to dedicate extended periods of quality time to these projects. Looking forward to see the fruits of these grant proposals (/r/rakulang comments).

Dr. Raku’s Corner

Dr Raku‘s beginner tutorial videos of the past week:

• Error Login Text File Creation Beginners Project
• Remove Directories (RMDIR)

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #273 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Should .flatmap be really DEPRECATED or not?

New Pull Requests

• Check expectations of .deepmap / .duckmap / .nodemap

Core Developments

• Patrick Böker fixed an issue with return values and LEAVE phasers.
• Daniel Green fixed an issue with the serialization of 64-bit unsigned integers, missing definitions in MoarVM on the MSVC compiler, and disabled some Javascript backend specific code on other backends.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed some minor issues with FIRST and LAST phasers as part of the body of a .map or .duckmap.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen made =for formula parse in RakuDoc.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 144/153 (make test +0) and 1063/1356 (make spectest +0).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Or just copy the parts you need by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Sorry, couldn’t resist by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Powerfully expressive not worth much? by Marc Carson.
• More refined with all of the above by Profoundly Nerdy.

Questions about Raku

• Is there a Raku history document? by Curtis Poe.
• A pattern occurring exactly 2 times? by Profoundly Nerdy.

Comments

• Allowed in Raku by psychoslave.
• Prefer it in Red by Steve Roe.
• Defaults and overloads work fine by Ralph Mellor.
• What | is actually for by Alfika07.
• Every permutation by tmtvl.

New Raku Modules

• JavaScript::Google::Charts “Generate JavaScript Google Charts code for making plots and charts” by Anton Antonov.

Updated Raku Modules

• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• ParaSeq by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• JavaScript::D3, Lingua::NumericWordForms, ML::TriesWithFrequencies, Data::Translators, Markdown::Grammar, Data::Geographics by Anton Antonov.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• LibXML::Writer by David Warring.
• MongoDB by Marcel Timmerman.
• Crypt::LibScrypt by Konstantin Narkhov.

Winding down

Grants! Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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