An idea launched at the Raku Core Summit last summer, is coming to fruition: Richard Hainsworth introduces Draig, a Welsh localization of the Raku Programming Language. Along with some nice-to-have helper scripts! Cool stuff!

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #252 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Add experimental hash protection from concurrent modifications
• Handle .extension("foo") on IOs without extension differently
• Add Mu.Callable($method) “coercer”

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen added nqp::syscall, nqp::register and nqp::delegate as shortcuts for the most common (and verbose) uses of nqp::dispatch, and added documentation and tests for them. Also deprecated the use of the PERL6LIB environment variable in favour of the RAKULIB environment variable.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed a recent bug in the RakuAST::L10N module.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 110/151 (make test +0) and 985/1356 (make spectest +0).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Most popular video of all time by Curtis Poe.
• Thanks! by arky.
• If feeling more adventurous by Moray.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• 540 by Suman.

Questions about Raku

• Accessing the topic variable by gruehunter.

Comments

• An all-UTF8 solution by Polyglot.
• Determining monoids by Moonchild.
• Max on empty by Summer.
• Nothing much to say by Flash Bytes.
• We should switch by beretguy.

New Raku Modules

• L10N::CY “Welsh localization of Raku” by Richard Hainsworth.

Updated Raku Modules

• HarfBuzz, PDF by David Warring.
• Log::Async by Brian Duggan.
• App::Workflows::Github by rcmlz.
• L10N::TLH by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Date::Utils by Tom Browder.
• Trove by Konstantin Narkhov.

Winding down

Draig, a cool new cousin language! And for Americans: a peaceful Martin Luther King Day. Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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