Scott Sotka introduced the Marrow distribution, which is basically a “Look at a database and create a Cro application for it” application. Currently only Postgresql databases are supported, and with still some database prerequisites, but definitely an interesting development in the ecosystem of the Raku Programming Language!

Raku Steering Council

The minutes of the meeting of 13 January 2024 are available, as well as an announcement about the result of an investigation of the Community Affairs Team.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #253 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Fix returning from LEAVE to surrounding scope
• Implement return prioritization
• Test return prioritization

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen changed the handling of IO.extension("foo") for paths without extension to be more DWIM, added two nqp operators as shortcuts for nqp::dispatch: nqp::track and nqp::guard (plus documentation and tests), and added specialized dispatchers for handling vivification of array and hash elements.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen changed the .raku representation of Rats (that cannot be represented decimally) from <22/3> to 7¹/₃.
• 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

• Missed last week’s by Joelle Maslak.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Raku, of course! by Joaquín Ferrero.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• run on regex line? by ToddAndMargo.
• Any resolution? by William Michels.

Comments

• Similar things by stevelabik1.
• When to follow by systems.
• Unusual primitives by Hillel Wayne.
• Different decisions by andyc.
• Fewest possible digits by syphilis.
• Finding success by systems.
• Very unique by ActualExpert7584.
• On Draig on /r/rakulang.
• Missed it being renamed by R2D3-1.
• Unique and great by Aerbil313.

New Raku Modules

• Marrow “MRO, the opposite of ORM” by Scott Sotka.
• App::upgrade-raku “A Raku application for updating/upgrading the local Raku install” by Francis Grizzly Smit.

Updated Raku Modules

• FunctionalParsers, ML::FindTextualAnswer, DSL::English::QuantileRegressionWorkflows by Anton Antonov.
• Intl::CLDR, DateTime::React by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Date::Utils, Abbreviations by Tom Browder.
• Term::Choose by Matthäus Kiem.
• PDF::Class, Font::AFM, PDF::Content, Font::FreeType, PDF::Font::Loader by David Warring.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• Net::Whois by Fernando Santagata.
• Grammar::PrettyErrors by Brian Duggan.
• OpenSSL by Nick Logan.
• Gzz::Prompt by Francis Grizzly Smit.

Winding down

And this week a cool new ecosystem module! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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