The Third Raku Conference is less than four weeks away (28 October). These are the presentations that have been accepted so far:

• Write clearer code by putting it in order by Daniel Sockwell.
• Raku Distribution Best Practices by Tony O’Dell.
• Integrating Large Language Models with Raku by Anton Antonov.
• Not using if blocks, and other Raku idioms by Leon Timmermans.
• Asynchronous and abstract database adventures by Leon Timmermans.
• A Stateless Quiz System by Arne Sommer.
• History and future of FET by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• The Nine Billion Names of God by Arne Sommer.
• New documentation tooling by Richard Hainsworth.
• ChatGPT as your buddy by Andrew Shitov.

Talk submission is still open, as is signup for attendance!

Andrew Shitov notes that you can also follow any conference updates on Telegram and Mastodon.

Hacktober is on!

It’s October again, and the 10th Hacktoberfest is on! Check it out if you’re serious about supporting open source!

Whateverable Upgrades

Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev has upgraded all of the Whateverable IRC bots, dockerized them and deployed them on new hardware!

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov has published a video teaser about their work on chatting with Jupyter Chatbook multi cell LLMs (/r/rakulang comments).

Haytham’s Corner

Haytham Elganiny introduces the Pakku package manager for the Raku Programming Language.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #237 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Hashes are not thread-safe and there are no means of dealing with this
• Installed Raku distributions don’t de-duplicate 
• Raku’s arrow operators lack Unicode equivalents
• Should :sigspace enable backtracking on the atom preceeding <.ws>?

Core Developments

Vadim Belman improved error reporting on various errors relating to role instantiation, and improved backtraces that would prematurely stop producing frames, for better debuggability.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen continued their work on putting in the hooks for parsing different natural language versions of Raku.
• Ab5tract generalized handling of whatever currying.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 109/148 (make test +0) and 958/1358 (make spectest +4).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Expecting 100 lines of code by Massa Humberto

Questions about Raku

• Getting random and wrong values with C interface for a Struct with dynamic data and custom postcircumfix by freddy.
• What is wrong with this multi declarations? by sumanstats.
• Element-wise comparison with certain precision by Suman Khanal.

Comments

• A vague awareness of Swift protocols by Ralph Mellor.
• Has moved on by Wittystick.
• On hyper operators by Ralph Mellor.
• Doing it without indexes by Hillel Wayne.
• On nodality by Ralph Mellor.
• Closer to Python/JS by andyc.
• When operator precedence matters by ntnayrB.

New Raku Modules

• Slang::Emoji “Allow single emojis as scalar variables” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Net::Google::Sheets “API access to Google Sheets” by Steve Roe.

Updated Raku Modules

• Slang::Subscripts, Slang::Otherwise by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Jupyter::Chatbook, LLM::Prompts by Anton Antonov.
• Text::CSV by H.Merijn Brand.
• _ by Daniel Sockwell.
• Sparrow6 by Alexey Melezhik.
• PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring.
• DB::Migration::Simple by Andinus.

Winding down

Conference Driven Development picking up steam! Looking forward to the Conference! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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