The 2023 Stackoverflow Developer Survey is now live. That in itself is not really Raku related, but that the Raku Programming Language is one of the options you can select for your programming language, is! Taking the survey will only take a few minutes of your life, and be your chance to boost the visibility of Raku when the survey results become available (/r/rakulang comments).

Revisited

1 Problem, 5 Programming Languages by code_reports, revisits the Raku solution from the original 1 Problem, 16 Programming Languages video from about a year ago (/r/rakulang comments).

Wenzel’s Corner

Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer tried out the new coercion features of the Raku Programming Language, and wrote a blog about it: Coercing coercion (/r/rakulang comments).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #217 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen in Rakudoc: implemented complete support for tables and completed support for the --doc command-line parameter.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 138/150 (make test +0) and 814/1355 (make spectest +6).

Meanwhile still on Twitter

• Make something happen around SBOM by Salve J. Nilsen.
• Not brain surgery by Luis F. Uceta.
• Neater than expected by Luis F. Uceta.

Questions about Raku

• Generate Raku in Bard? by Forma de vida artificial.
• How do I smartmatch against a list of values with when inside a given block? by Luis F. Uceta.

Comments

• Little tools in a lot of languages by klibertp.
• On refinement types by klibertp.
• Another metaphor for actions in grammars by klibertp.
• With unicode operators by zokier.
• Third choice by PurpleUpbeat2820.
• At #72 by BuddahTortoise.
• Does so already by samatman.

Updated Raku Modules

• SQL::Builder, Audio::TagLib by Adrian Kreher.
• String::Utils by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• PDF::ISO_32000, PDF::Class by David Warring.
• Protocol::Postgres by Leon Timmermans.
• Term::Choose, Term::Choose::Util, Term::TablePrint by Matthäus Kiem.
• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• Grammar::TokenProcessing, Data::Reshapers by Anton Antonov.
• Terminal::Widgets by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.
• RandomColor by Clifton Wood.
• Template::Nest::Fast by Andinus.
• Test::Selector by Luc St-Louis.

Winding down

Remember the people of Ukraine are still under attack, every single day. Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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