Alexander Kiryuhin announced the Rakudo 2020.06 Compiler Release at the expected date! The associated binary packages are available at the expected locations.

Conference in the Cloud

A last minute addition to the program of the Conference in the Cloud: Lock-Less Concurrent Programming in Raku by Vadim Belman, only a few days away! If you want to experience that interactively, you can still sign up, tickets are only 10 US$! You can even join the Hallway Track! These are the other presentations with Raku content:

• Doccing Raku by JJ Merelo.
• The Physics::Unit edge by Stephen Roe.
• Hypers and Gathers and Loops… Oh, my! by Steven Lembark.
• A Simple Matter of Programming by Damian Conway.
• Threaded Text Console UI in Raku by Vadim Belman.
• Creating Secure Decentralized Content Management Systems on Ethereum Blockchain with Raku by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Going International in Raku by Matthew Stephan Stuckwisch.
• Improving the Perception of Perl and Raku by Stuart J Mackintosh.
• RakuAST: a Foundation for Raku Macros by Jonathan Worthington.

On Raku’s Progress

Tyler Limkemann, after a hiatus of about a year, is back with a very nice blog post on Raku in June 2020: Speed, Usability, and Politics. The takeaway? “I’m deeply pleased with the state of Raku right now.” (/r/rakulang comments).

Still Yet Another Two

Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer continues to publish 2 blog posts a week, each addressing some feature or quirk of the Raku Programming Language.

• It felt like a bug
• WAT freeness

Three in one

Patrick Spek reports on what they’ve been doing in Raku lately (/r/rakulang comments).

Weekly Challenge

The entries for Challenge #65 that have Raku solutions:

• Weekly Challenge #65 by Luca Ferrari.
• Palin Digits with Raku by Arne Sommer.
• Weekly Challenge #65 by Javier Luque.
• Weekly Challenge #65 by Shahed Nooshmand.
• Weekly Challenge #65 by Mohammad S Anwar (videos task #1, task #2).
• Digital Value at the Palindrome Thunderdome by Colin Crain.
• Raku Daily Skill Builders by Andrew Shitov
• Digit Sum by Laurent Rosenfeld.

Challenge #66 is up for your perusal!

Core Developments

• 0racle fixed an issue with MoarVM on older GCC compilers.
• Nicholas Clark fixed some issues with updating Unicode data.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed several issues they had introduced while making things faster and introduced a new operator: (==) (also known as ≡) and ≢, equivalent to !(==). This operator applies QuantHash (aks Set) semantics on its operands.
• And some other fixes, optimisations, and improvements.

Questions about Raku

• How to run shell command in Perl, like Raku? by con.
• Is there any way of programatically test-compiling Raku code? by JJ Merelo.
• High level templating engine like ERB? by Tyler Limkemann.
• Performance? by Tyler Limkemann.
• How can you write a conditional based on the definedness of multiple variables? by Ben Davies.
• Emojis as identifiers by Steve Downey.
• When does .race or .hyper outperform non-data-parallelized versions? by JJ Merelo.

Meanwhile on Twitter

• A foundation for Raku macros by The Perl and Raku Conference.
• Presenting Vikna by The Perl and Raku Conference.
• Lamenting lack of exceptions by Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer.
• Similarly in C++ by ELD-R-ESH-2.
• Chaining operators by kobake.
• A simple matter of programming by The Perl and Raku Conference.
• Talking about documenting by JJ Merelo.
• No idea how I feel by Hästronaut.
• Lovely toys by @doomyflo@framapiaf.
• A concern? by The Perl Foundation.
• Spazure! by Alexey Melezhik.
• Searching for “Raku” language by JJ Merelo.
• Excellent work! by Moritz Lenz.
• Using 6 threads by JJ Merelo.
• Evolution in Comma by JJ Merelo.
• Miss something? by Simon Proctor.
• Additional Raku presentation by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• On washing your hands by Toby.
• Reminiscing by Andrew Shitov.
• The promised land by Esteban A. Maringolo.
• Some highlights by JJ Merelo.
• Impressed by Tyler Limkemann.
• Come talk to us by The Perl and Raku Conference.
• A better REPL by Samuel Chase.
• The Docker container by JJ Merelo.
• The difference? by hncynic bot.
• Surrendered by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊).
• A baseline by The Perl Shop.

Meanwhile on perl6-users

• Help converting CArray[uint8] to Blob by David Santiago.
• Junctions and parenthesis by Joseph Brenner.

Comments about Raku

• Known as Raku by Brad Gilbert.
• What is beauty? by Reini Urban.
• Spearheading a distinction by zokier.
• HTTP grammars by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• Config::Parser::json by Arjan Widlak.
• DBIish::Pool by Rod Taylor.

Updated Raku Modules

• LibXML, LibXSLT, Font::FreeType, PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring.
• Sparrow6 by Alexey Melezhik.
• Red by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Algorithm::MinMaxHeap by Itsuki Toyota.
• Gnome::N by Marcel Timmerman.
• LogP6 by Mikhail Khorkov.

Winding down

One can only say: keep healthy, keep safe and see you next week for yet another instalment of the Rakudo Weekly News!