Paweł bbkr Pabian continued their series of blog posts explaining Unicode, this time using the Raku Programming Language for examples in 3 new posts:

• UTF-8 internal design
• Fun with UTF: Printing sound
• UTF-8 code points U+1234 meaning

Great to see Raku being used to explain such basic modern knowledge!

Andrew’s Corner

Andrew Shitov published two Weekly Challenge inspired blog posts this week:

• Counting Fridays the 13th (/r/rakulang comments)
• Calculator with Roman numbers using Raku Grammars (/r/rakulang comments)

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov introduced a new module for post-processing of output of Large Language Models in Text::SubParsers.

Raku Steering Council

The minutes of the meeting of 29 July have been published.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #228 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• It is time to drop the “(formerly Perl 6)”
• The fate of P5 regexes in a RakuAST world

New Pull Requests

• Remove all :P5 related regex tests that were testing :P5

Core Developments

• Brahmajit Das fixed a MoarVM compiler issue on clang16.
• Jan-Olof Hendig bumped the version of libuv on MoarVM.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue with stringification of v6.*, and comparisons of Version objects that have a * in them.
• Nick Logan added a deprecation message for the use of the .pm extension for Raku Programming Language module files.

And in RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen refactored the handling of meta-information on RakuDoc Markup objects, added support for also and fixed deparsing regex quantifiers.
• And many smaller fixes and tweaks.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 140/150 (make test) and 892/1358 (make spectest +7).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• I can take a joke by Profoundly Nerdy.
• The opposite of Go by Paul Buetow.
• The 100 year language by Paul Buetow.
• Likely to ramble about by Solomon Foster.
• Raku has zef by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Lemmy communities by Mark Gardner.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• A wild underscore! by Luis F. Uceta.
• Parallelism in a modern language by Jube.

Questions about Raku

• How does is-prime work under the hood? by Profoundly Nerdy.
• A language neutral version of Raku regexes? by Mark Gardner.
• Writing a treesitter grammar for Raku? by Paul Buetow.
• Are you using Raku? Pros / Cons? by fuzztester.

Comments

• So many goodies! by Luis F. Uceta.
• Didn’t discourage Raku by toastal.

New Raku Modules

• Text::SubParsers “Extracting and processing of interpret-able sub-strings in texts” by Anton Antonov.
• FontConverter “Convert between TrueType and PostScript Type 1 fonts” by Tom Browder.

Updated Raku Modules

• DateTime::Grammar, LLM::Functions, Chemistry::Stoichiometry, Text::Plot by Anton Antonov.
• Physics::Measure by Steve Roe.
• PDF::Tags::Reader, FontConfig by David Warring.
• JSON::Unmarshal by Vadim Belman.
• JSON::Class, META6 by Jonathan Stowe.
• File::Find, Whateverable, Shell::Command, if, App::Rak by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Raku::Pod::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• HTTP::UserAgent by Nick Logan.
• AttrX::Mooish by Vadim Belman.
• Math::Libgsl::Matrix by Fernando Santagata.

Winding down

Some cool blog posts at the end of the hottest month on the planet! Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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