Richard Hainsworth has been working a lot on improving the search functionality of the documentation of the Raku Programming Language, and has a prototype working waiting to be tested by you! Please report any comments or suggestions.

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov published a blog post about their LLM::Prompts module.

Paweł’s Corner

Paweł bbkr Pabian continued their “Introduction to UTF” series of blog posts with “Fun with UTF-8: Homoglyphs“.

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik decided to move the SparrowCI continuous integration service and this may have some consequences for some users.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #235 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Mention ordering from dir is arbitrary
• [JVM] Add extra check for GLOBAL being null

Core Developments

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen streamlined a lot of the Raku grammar and associated actions, added support for the nano term, and started putting in the hooks for parsing different natural language versions of Raku.
• Ab5tract added support for the family of ff operators, and made support for state variables more robust.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 109/148 (make test +0) and 953/1358 (make spectest +2).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A complete course! by jbz.
• An open source wall thermostat by Profoundly Nerdy.
• On sigils by Paul Buetow.
• An alias for and by Yann Büchau.
• The 35mm Focal Length by Salve J. Nilsen.
• Encapsulates the relationship by Mark Gardner.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Hello! by Jube.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• New search for Raku documentation page by Richard Hainsworth.

Questions about Raku

• The different ways to no duplicates by Simon Proctor.

Comments

• A good start by Actual-Contact2890.
• Decent execution by klibertp.
• No rush by notagoodidea.
• Replaced most of my shell scripting by klibertp.
• In this category by hwayne.
• Looks crazy by hackhive-io.

New Raku Modules

• LibXML::Writer “Raku bindings to the libxml2 streaming writer” by David Warring.

Updated Raku Modules

• Raylib::Bindings by Dan Vu.
• XML::Fast by Jonathan Stowe.
• WWW::GCloud, WWW::GCloud::API::Storage, WWW::GCloud::API::Vision by Vadim Belman.
• LLM::Prompts, LLM::Functions, Jupyter::Chatbook, WWW::OpenAI, WWW::PaLM, LLM::Functions by Anton Antonov.
• Zef::Configuration by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Inline::J by 0racle.
• LibXSLT, PDF::Content by David Warring.
• Bitcoin::Core::Secp256k1, Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Text::CSV by H.Merijn Brand.
• Archive::SimpleZip by Paul Marquess.

Winding down

WordPress tells me this is the 200th instalment of the Rakudo Weekly News. How time flies! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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