Justin DeVuyst has done it again: the Rakudo Compiler Release 2022.03 is now available, binary releases have been made available by Patrick Böker, and the Linux packages by Claudio Ramirez should also be available soon. No exciting new features, mostly maintenance and some nice-to-haves this time.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #157 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• CURI: pre-compile longest names first
• Move CUR::Staging into core
• Update libuv to version 1.44.1

Core Developments

• Daniel Green fixed an issue with allocation of CStrs with NativeCall.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen made the “day” parameter of Date and DateTime accept a * or *-1 expression to count from the end of the month.
• Patrick Böker removed some Windows-y bits from usage instructions of precompiled release archives.
• Stefan Seifert fixed an issue with the install-dist.raku script, and fixed an issue with resources in the CUR::Staging module.
• And some smaller tweaks and fixes.

Questions about Raku

• What are the best materials for learning Raku? by mr_dj_kuro.
• What could happen if I don’t put a require Module code in a BEGIN block? by sid_com.
• How should Linux distributions configure, build, and install modules? by mr_dj_kuro.
• What’s Raku’s intended audience and use? by ElusiveLambdas.
• Comma reporting “subroutine X not declared” for test function by Steve Dondley.
• How do I get Raku Grammar Preview unstuck from “Collecting results” with restart? by Steve Dondley.

Meanwhile on Twitter

• Repunit primes by Julia.
• Introducing… by ゆるうーいん.
• Sharing maintainers? by Rebecca Turner.
• Doing cool stuff with it by Douglas Jenkins.
• Wonderful debugger by JJ Merelo.
• Learn for free by unixjunk1e.

Comments about Raku

• I am devoting to Raku because I am the same faith as Larry Wall by whaaat411mondo.
• Solving one problem with 16 programming languages on InApps.
• CFP at MPLR 2022 by smarr.
• MoarVM may compete with JVM and .Net in a decade by mr_dj_kuro.
• Weird sintax by ionsolo.

Updated Raku Modules

• Statistics by Suman Khanal.
• Karabiner::CompModGenerator by Steve Dondley.
• Pod::To::PDF, Pod::To::PDF::Lite by David Warring.
• DBIish, Config::BINDish, Async::Workers by Vadim Belman.
• Physics::Measure by Steve Roe.
• Number::Denominate, Test::Stream by JJ Merelo.
• Acme::Test::Module::Zef by Tony O’Dell.
• Linenoise by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Terminal::LineEditor by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Gnome::Gdk3, Gnome::N by Marcel Timmerman.
• Dawa by Brian Duggan.
• Term::Choose by Matthäus Kiem.
• Games::Wordle by Daniel Mita.
• Timezones::ZoneInfo by Matthew Stuckwisch.

Winding down

This week 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!