The videos of the Third Raku Conference have become available thanks to Andrey Shitov (mastodon comments). Here they are in chronological order:

• Integrating Large Language Models with Raku by Anton Antonov.
• History and future of FET by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Write clearer code by putting it in order by Daniel Sockwell.
• Reclaiming what is rightfully ours – renovation in Raku land by Márton Polgár.
• So you wanted to teach programming to your niece, but she doesn’t know English by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Mind-bending Moments in Hacking RakuAST by John Haltiwanger.
• RakuDoc and Raku Documentation by Richard Hainsworth.
• Ecosystem champions, cherry-picked by Márton Polgár.
• Asynchronous and abstract database adventures by Leon Timmermans.
• Raku Distribution Best Practices by Tony O’Dell.
• Raku Steering Council Q&A

Mod of the Month

Elizabeth Mattijsen made it to Mod of the Month on dev.to (/r/rakulang, mastodon comments).

App::Rak on HN

Ciavash mentioned App::Rak on Hacker News, and a big discussion followed. Too bad nobody mentioned It’s time to rak!

Tom’s Corner

Tom Browder has written a basic introduction on how to start publishing your own modules in the Raku Programming Language.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #242 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Discussions

• Marketing, Public relations, Branding

New Problem Solving Issues

• All files in a distribution should be listed somewhere in META6.json (i.e. bin/ and docs/ files)
• “depends” should move towards only allowing the hash form
• How to report an issue related to the Rakudo webpages?

New Pull Requests

• RakuAST: Support where blocks on variables
• First attempt to use a dispatcher instead of nqp::p6definite
• DRAFT: RakuAST: Make multi subs check for re-declaration of signatures

Core Developments

• Dan Vu fixed a documentation issue on MoarVM.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen refactored the handling of packages, added support for ::?PACKAGE, fixed concatenation of multiple m/foo/ statements, and fixed various deparsing issues.
• Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira added a Portuguese localization.
• Ab5tract fixed an issue with the meta object of routines.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 111/150 (make test +1) and 982/1358 (make spectest +4).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Playing with web components by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Refactored, your thoughts? by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• A more powerful tool by Ciavash.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Crazy floating math by Suman Khanal.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Marketing / PR / Branding by Richard Hainsworth.

Questions about Raku

• Mapping long double in C to Raku by Suman Khanal.
• Can’t install LibraryCheck in v2023.10 by zeekar.
• Specify particular Rakudo version in Raku module by Suman Khanal.
• Adopting the .r extension? by helloworldnick.
• How can I access the $_ variable from the calling frame? by Richard Hainsworth.

Comments

• On observables by Ralph Mellor.
• It might matter by eschwartz.

New Raku Modules

• JSON::Class “JSON de-/serialization for classes and roles” by Vadim Belman.

Updated Raku Modules

• Text::CSV by H.Merijn Brand.
• App::Workflows::Github by rcmlz.
• LibXML, PDF by David Warring.
• File::Find by Márton Polgár.
• AttrX::Mooish by Vadim Belman.
• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• App::Tasks by Joelle Maslak.
• zef by Nick Logan.

Winding down

A nice conference with cool presentations, and some unexpected personal exposure. Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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