Since last week, some Raku Programming Language related videos of lightning talks from TPRC 2023 have become available:

• Glue by Lee Johnson.
• 2023 State Of Raku by Daniel Sockwell.
• Regex – Is it so simple? by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• On Exercism.org by Daniel Mita.

All other videos are also available, or course.

Vadim’s Corner

Vadim Belman shows how roles can make your life so much easier in Easy-peasy Service From A Role (/r/rakulang comments).

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov introduces a new module that provides functions to access, interact and utilize Large Language Models in LLM::Functions.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #227 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Add stat repr and related syscalls
• Fix MVM_platform_lseek() on win32
• Fix incompatible function pointer types with clang16
• Use new stat syscalls

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed a race-condition in the quote-language cache, and fixed an issue with subclasses of DateTime calling the .truncate-to method.
• Although not strictly a core development, Will Coleda managed to update ctags to the Raku Programming Language.

And in RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen refactored margin handling in RakuDoc, introduced support for vulgar fractions such as 4²/₃ and 4⅔ (aka <14/3>), and made :allow in RakuDoc a purely renderer function.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 140/150 (make test) and 885/1357 (make spectest).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Using for work by Paul Buetow.
• It’s a keeper! by Claudio Ramirez.
• A whole family of them! by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Not surprising by Curtis Poe.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• First class kebab by Jube.
• Hello RakuAST by Luis F. Uceta.
• Composable and readable by Luis F. Uceta.

Questions about Raku

• How do I create a class with the same name as a built-in one without overshadowing it? by Luis F. Uceta.
• Attempting to install rakubrew and something just isn’t right by s-ro_mojosa.
• Problem: program runs, trace causes exception by Cow1337killr.
• Role-constrained variable does not accept derived role defined inline by user1915829.
• Questions About Raku for Beginners Presentation at TPRC 2023 by s-ro_mojosa.
• How to debug a Raku program? by 陈易之.

Comments

• Raku for Glue by masukomi.
• The heck happened by Wenzel P.P. Peppmeier.
• No love for Raku by cpurdy.
• Unicode and ascii ops by capitainenemo.
• A bunch of heretics by Luis F. Uceta.
• A good talk by Steve Roe.
• Great article! by Luis F. Uceta.
• Not a bad language by nrdvana.

New Raku Modules

• ProblemSolver “Simple Constraint Programming Problem Solver” by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Iec104Parser “Parsing Power IEC 104 Messages” by ohmycoudy.
• File::file “A Raku wrapper for the system file command” by Tom Browder.
• TXN “Double-entry accounting ledger packager” by Andy Weidenbaum.
• TXN::Remarshal “Double-entry accounting ledger file format converter” by Andy Weidenbaum.
• TXN::Parser “Double-entry accounting ledger parser” by Andy Weidenbaum.

Updated Raku Modules

• ML::FindTextualAnswer, WWW::OpenAI, WWW::PaLM, Text::CodeProcessing, LLM::Functions, Markdown::Grammar by Anton Antonov.
• Shell::DSL by Jack Kuan.
• Raku::Pod::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• JSON::Unmarshal by Vadim Belman.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Digest::xxHash by Andy Weidenbaum.
• FontConfig, PDF::Font::Loader, PDF::Tags by David Warring.

Winding down

Quite a number of new modules in a very hot week on the planet again. Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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