All the best wishes to everyone who likes the Raku Programming Language! For the aficionados: Happy [+] (2..9)»³. For the mathematically savvy: Happy 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ . For everybody else: Happy 2024!

Inspired by Rudy Rucker’s post on Mastodon.

All 2023 Advent Posts And Comments

If you didn’t have time to read any or all of the 2023 Advent posts about the Raku Programming Language, then you can use this handy list, which also includes references to any comments made!

Steve’s Corner

Steve Roe felt being bugged about re-inventing wheels regarding contact information and decided to blog about it: Class Standards.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #250 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• TAP refers to Perl 6

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue with dd not showing coercion types correctly in some cases.
• Osei Poku deprecated the Distribution::Resource.Str method, because it can produce inconsistent values depending on compilation stage.
• Vadim Belman fixed a potential recursion in the archetypes dispatcher.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A new logo for Sparky! by Alexey Melezhik.
• Happier in the python by Mikhail Khorkov.
• Raku at 37c3 by Salve J. Nilsen.
• On inking by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Not too complex because not just regex by Massa Humberto.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Gesundheit! by JJ Merelo.
• Gradually typed is the way by Jube.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Re: Help with macports port for zef by Tom Browder.

Questions about Raku

• How to create a secure HTTP session? by Polyglot.
• How to install zef on Ubuntu 22.04 by Polyglot.
• How to extract data from RakuAST ‘s by Richard Hainsworth.

Comments

• On optimizing Raku programs with Zig on Hacker News.
• Flexible and minimalist by Alexey Melezhik.
• Featured Mods of the Year by Michael Tharrington.
• Plans for 2024 by Samuel Chase.

New Raku Modules

• Contact “Contact, Address, Name, etc Parsing” by Steve Roe.

Updated Raku Modules

• Data::Generators, Data::TypeSystem, JavaScript::D3, Data::Translators by Anton Antonov.
• Display::Listings, GUI::Editors by Francis Grizzly Smith.
• GLib by Clifton Wood.
• Console::Blackjack by Greg Donald.
• Sparky by Alexey Melezhik.
• Digest by Lucien Grondin.
• FEN::Grammar by Dan Vu.
• AttrX::Mooish, JSON::Class, WWW::GCloud, WWW::GCloud::API::Storage by Vadim Belman.
• Terminal::Capabilities by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Font::AFM, PDF::Content by David Warring.
• P5localtime by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Winding down

Another year begins. Hopefully with more positive than negative events! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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