The Exercism people published a video about programming languages with terse, concise syntax, and the Raku Programming Language is one of them! If you don’t want too look at the whole hour-long video, these are the Raku related bits:

• Introduction
• A big language with gradual typing
• On junctions, parallelism, lazy evaluation and grammars

Steve’s Corner

Steve Roe continued their personal journey along the Raku path with “Drax on Jupyter“.

Konstantin’s Corner

After a long absence caused by different global, personal and subjective circumstances, Konstant Narkhov returns with a new release of the Pheix framework (/r/rakulang comments).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #233 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Nick Logan fixed the build on the JVM backend.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen introduced the Operator class, a subclass of Sub, intended to be used for operator subroutines only. And removed the (deprecated since 2018) is_approx subroutine from the Test module and associated tests.

And in RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen started rewriting the NQP expression parser in the Raku grammar, to allow for proper use of OperatorProperties.
• Ab5tract fixed more issues related to role inheritance, resulting in 10 more test-files passing.
• Many smaller fixes and tweaks.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 109/148 (make test +0) and 948/1358 (make spectest +10).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Pet favourite languages by Samuel Chase.
• PSA for Kivuli users by Jonathan Stowe.
• In need of a holiday by Jonathan Stowe.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Arriving back home sick by Mohammad S. Anwar.
• The documentation has improved! by Paul Buetow.
• Simple brute force by Suman Khanal.

Questions about Raku

• Why am I receiving a warning about deprecated code after installing Rakudo™ v2023.08? by Jim Bollinger.
• A Newcomer’s Question: How are things? by le-Chameau.

Comments

• On fold, scan and produce by Ralph Mellor.
• Good luck with your work! by Gabor Szabo.
• No more bare words by kaya3.
• Thanks! by Steve Roe.
• On annotation and no annotation by Ralph Mellor.
• Top Programming Languages of 2023 by Stephen Cass.
• Scant evidence by chromatic.
• Reaped by NodeReaper.
• Mind you, I love Raku by reddit_clone.
• Meanwhile, Python was there by cutler.
• Supporting %b in printf by zeekar.
• Nobody created an LLM toolchain with it? by mempko.
• Too slow for parsing log files by cutler.
• Faithful to 3 virtues by Richard Rodger.

New Raku Modules

• WebDriver2 “WebDriver level 2 bindings implementing W3C’s specification” by zjhmoss.
• Jupyter::Chatbook “Jupyter Raku Kernel that produces LLM-aware notebooks” by Anton Antonov.

Updated Raku Modules

• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Physics::Unit, App::Crag, Physics::Measure by Steve Roe.
• Config::Parser::toml by Patrick Spek.
• Touch by Robert Ransbottom.
• Inline::J by 0racle.
• Lingua::EN::Sentence by Kim Ryan.
• PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring.
• Grammar::TokenProcessing, Text::SubParsers, DateTime::Grammar, LLM::Functions by Anton Antonov.
• Jupyter::Kernel by Brian Duggan.
• Intl::Token::Number by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Bitcoin::Core::Secp256k1 by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Terminal::Widgets by Geoffrey Broadwell.

Winding down

A bit of a quiet week with people being tired coming back from vacation! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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