A bit of a quiet week with people recovering from the holidays, getting ready for big things to come!

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik introduces Sparky – Self-hosted Task Runner with Easily Customizable UI to the people on dev.to.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #251 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Don’t lose return value with LEAVE phasers
• Add ValueList as a 6.e feature in core

Core Developments

• Daniel Green optimized the use of native unsigned integers in MoarVM.
• Nick Logan deprecated a number of methods in the Distribution::Resource class because they produce inconsistent results, depending on compilation phase.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen streamlined code relating to parameters, allowed for constants being used in RakuDoc configurations, fixed an issue with nameless parameters and handling of react / supply with a single whenever in them.
• Nahuel Pacheco fixed an issue in deparsing of meta-infix operators.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 110/151 (make test +0) and 985/1356 (make spectest +5).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• More lines of test by Simon Proctor.
• An amazing language by Flavio Poletti.
• Already reported by arky.
• It’s true! by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Top developers globally by stardev.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• optimizer? by ToddAndMargo.
• IO::Socket::INET timeout? by Paul Procacci.

Questions about Raku

• How, and how best, to select a method/sub based on a boolean? by Richard Hainsworth.
• Another matrixy question: using a sequence as index(es) by zeekar.
• Is it possible to use the index of an array in a map block? by Mimosinnet.
• Adding support for older Rakudos? by Alexey Melezhik.

Comments

• Some mentions by eyepopslikeamosquito.
• Unicode in identifiers by mbauman.
• Great, but lost it by creer.

New Raku Modules

• App::fix.raku “Fix borked (broken) terminals” by Francis Grizzly Smith.
• App::Doc-N-Save “A collection of Raku programs for managing modules and apps in Raku” by Francis Grizzly Smith.

Updated Raku Modules

• FEN::Grammar by Dan Vu.
• Red by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Sparrow6, Sparky, Sparrowdo by Alexey Melezhik.
• Gzz::Text::Utils, GUI::Editors by Francis Grizzly Smith.
• Testo, Ddt by Márton Polgár.
• Raku::Pod::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• GtkLayerShell by Siavash Askari Nasr.
• JavaScript::D3, DSL::Shared, LLM::Functions, WWW::OpenAI by Anton Antonov.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.

Winding down

Wondering what the maximum difference in day temperature is between users of the Raku Programming Language in the world. Guessing it could well be more than 70 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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