Daniel Sockwell realized that in the week before last, a significant threshold was reached: 2000 questions about the Raku Programming Language on StackOverflow! With fewer than 70 questions unanswered!

Raku Conference

The Third Raku Conference is less than two weeks away (28 October, sign up). The past week saw the acceptance of the following additional presentations:

• Mind-bending Moments in Hacking RakuAST by ab5tract.
• Raku v6.e Governance – Brainstorming Session by Daniel Sockwell.
• Reclaiming what is rightfully ours – renovation in Raku land by Márton Polgár.
• Ecosystem champions, cherry-picked by Márton Polgár.

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov describes how the logic they developed in Raku, is being translated to other languages for wider exposure (/r/rakulang comments).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #239 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• RakuAST: Fix binding of $_ on smartmatch RHS
• (Re-)align backtraces on JVM with MoarVM

Core Developments

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen made adverbs work on array indices and continued working on localization features (including an initial version of a German localization).
• Ab5tract reimplemented the internals of the FIRST phaser using RakuAST features, and made object hashes fully functional.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 110/149 (make test +1) and 975/1358 (make spectest +15).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Not even a one-liner by Massa Humberto.
• Naming errors is the worst by Daniel Sockwell.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Data of spontaneous learning communities by JJ Merelo.
• Adapted a module by JJ Merelo.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Raku IO IceDrive bug by ToddAndMargo.

Questions about Raku

• Semantics of set() versus Set() versus Set.new by Daniel Sockwell.
• Returning array from raku and c function does not match in nativecall by Suman Khanal.
• Is there a good way to provide a timeout for a Proc? by Solomon Foster.
• What’s the deal with Raku? by GeorgeneKeck.
• Understanding Raku’s approach to Exception type hierarchy (or lack thereof) by Daniel Sockwell.

Comments

• An honourable mention by lifthrasiir.
• Programmer girl by Sinyurli.
• On named arguments by Ralph Mellor.
• On the power of comb by Ralph Mellor.

Updated Raku Modules

• Getopt::Long::Grammar, Jupyter::Chatbook by Anton Antonov.
• LibraryMake by JJ Merelo.
• AttrX::Mooish by Vadim Belman.
• PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring.
• Statistics by Suman Khanal.
• GlotIO, Benchmark by Márton Polgár.
• Pakku by Haytham Elganiny.

Winding down

A bit of a quiet week as many regulars are preparing their presentation for the conference. Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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