On this Pi Day there is sadly not a lot to report about the Raku Programming Language in the main article of the Rakudo Weekly News. Which leaves room for expressing the hope the War in Ukraine will soon end 🕊🌻!

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #156 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Use JFS64 instead of TinyMT64 as our PRNG

Core Developments

• Daniel Green fixed an issue with missing _u cases in callsite resolving and fixed a speshing issue related to parameters, and restored an optimization with when having numeric values.
• Vadim Belman worked around an issue with .ACCEPTS returning a non-Raku object.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed some issues spotted by a Blin run.
• Daniel Sockwell fixed error reporting on incorrect trait usage.
• David Warring fixed rendering of =defn elements in Pod::To::Text.
• And some smaller tweaks and fixes.

Questions about Raku

• Inline::Perl5 not working with Lingua::En::Titlecase perl module by Steve Dondley.
• Does Raku has Python’s Union type? by chenyf.
• How can I package Raku modules for gentoo Linux? by mr_dj_kuro.
• RAKUDO_RAKUAST=1 raku --target=ast is not yet available by WhiteMist.
• What’s a future-proof way to get Raku “site” repository? by mr_dj_kuro.
• How to debug a script that will kill by system when await multi Promise? by chenyf.
• Rakudo Star bundle 2022.02 build failed by lisprogtor.
• Nested type captures by theangryepicbanana.
• How can other languages target MoarVM and interoperate with Raku? by mr_dj_kuro.
• What are some other ways this loop can be rewritten? by Steve Dondley.
• Support arbitrary git URLs as Raku Module Dependencies by mr_dj_kuro.
• Does DBIish Oracle driver support multi-threading, after all? by Vadim Belman.

Meanwhile on Twitter

• It’s so… by Carl.
• It’s picking up! by H.Merijn Brand.
• Time to rewrite semantic analysis by Jerry Chen.
• Just a vibe by Tim Hope.
• Not the dog’s breakfast by Paul Bone.
• Perhaps in Raku? by Suman Khanal.
• Running tests depending on environment by JJ Merelo.
• I wish by Raul Nohea Goodness.
• Our own wording by Yusuke Shinyama.
• Didn’t know about . by Shoichi Kaji.
• fish completions by Siavash Askari Nasr.
• Query WikidataFacts by JJ Merelo.
• Trying parsers and sublanguages by Michael Kohl.

Comments about Raku

• Changed the main website by Daniel Sockwell.
• Gentoo Support Request by s-ro_mojosa.
• Its share of idioms by Moritz Lenz.
• Amazingly easy to read by s-ro_mojosa.
• The Klingon Way by zengargoyle.
• Will catch the error eventually by Brad Gilbert.
• Maybe this will be helpful by Ralph Mellor.
• Answers coded in Raku by jubilatious1.
• Bugs in Hello World by sunfishcode.
• A ton of great ideas by knoam.
• Seems to share some properties by mina86ng.

Updated Raku Modules

• Manifest::StopWar by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Pod::To::PDF, PDF::API6, Pod::To::PDF::Lite, PDF by David Warring.
• Physics::Measure by Steve Roe.
• Red by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Ecosystem::Archive::Update, DateTime::TimeZone by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Dawa, Log::Async by Brian Duggan.
• Test::Output, Format::Lisp, Terminal::Width, Test::When, IO::Dir, Reminders, Test::Notice, IO::Path::ChildSecure, IO::MiddleMan, Wikidata::API, Syslog::Parse by JJ Merelo.
• Text::Table::Simple by Nick Logan.
• Gnome::N, Gnome::Gdk3, Gnome::Gtk3 by Marcel Timmerman.
• App::Mi6 by Shoichi Kaji.
• Log::Dispatch by Vadim Belman.
• Sparky-Job-Api, Sparky by Alexey Melezhik.

Winding down

The Rakudo Weekly News continues to show the Ukrainian flag 🇺🇦 in support of the people in Ukraine, and any other people who are trying to make an end to the war in Ukraine. Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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