A Dr Raku has started producing and posting beginner tutorial videos this week. So far, three videos have been posted:

• Get User Input
• Subroutine Arguments
• How to create Arrays & Access Elements

Yours truly finds the hands a bit distracting.

FOSDEM 2024

The video of The Art of Concurrent Scripting with Raku presentation by Brian Duggan is available for downloading and/or playing.

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov enlisted the use of Large Language Models in “LLM aids for processing of the Carlson-Putin interview“.

Raku Steering Council

The minutes of the meeting of 10 February 2024 are available.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #256 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Metamodel concurrency problems

Core Developments

• Daniel Green optimized the creation of backtraces on MoarVM.
• Stefan Seifert fixed handling of native nums on MoarVM that caused a flapping test.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen created a whole set of nqp::const::SIG_ELEMxxx to replace several “local” definitions, such as in the binder and Parameter logic.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Stringiest language by james is here.
• Recommended by Samuel Chase.
• Empty files in nested directories by Samuel Chase.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Ruby may be involved by Kang-min Liu.
• Raku Beer by Kang-min Liu.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• -c question by ToddAndMargo.
• pm6 naming convention by ToddAndMargo.
• Session ID by ToddAndMargo.
• Who call raku? by ToddAndMargo.
• Disable coercing? by ToddAndMargo.

Questions about Raku

• Problem with say() function by 7stud.
• How to make a Raku test optional if a module is not installed by Rawley Fowler.

Comments

• ASCII equivalents by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Latest Comma Release? by Solomon Foster.
• About «» by Steve Roe.
• Pairs! Interesting! by andyc.
• Souped-up grammar system by crq-yml.
• Really sets of Pairs? by zellyn.
• In John Walker’s insane benchmark by walker-rip.
• Fetch data from a large file based on time and date recursively by jubilatious1.
• Defaulting to rationals by Palli.
• Including every trivial thing by crq-yml.
• Looking good aesthetically by Anonymous.
• Before Raku was vogue by Summer.

New Raku Modules

• Markup::Calendar “Markup (HTML, Markdown) calendar functions for displaying monthly, yearly, and custom calendars” by Anton Antonov.
• Holidays::Miscellaneous “Provides perpetual data for miscellaneous holidays” by Tom Browder.

Updated Raku Modules

• Text::Calendar, WWW::OpenAI, Jupyter::Chatbook, DSL::Entity::AddressBook, WWW::OpenAI, Data::Translators by Anton Antonov.
• PDF::Content by David Warring.
• Configuration by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Date::Event, Holidays::US::Federal, Timezones::US, DateTime::US by Tom Browder.
• App::Cal by Will Coleda.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Moneys by Arun Vickram.
• zef by Nick Logan.
• Jupyter::Kernel by Brian Duggan.
• Text::MiscUtils by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• JSON::Hjson by Takumi Akiyama.

Winding down

A bunch of videos. And progress on MoarVM and NQP again. A good week. Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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