As previously announced, the Edument Team has made the commercial version of the Comma IDE for the Raku Programming Language available for a free download. Users of the Community version will appreciate the code refactoring, testing and profiling capabilities that weren’t previously available. A big Thank You is in order! (/r/rakulang comments).

In related news, b_scan has posted an update about their work on a Raku Navigator Language Server.

More video tutorials

Dr Raku continued producing and posting beginner tutorial videos. The past week, a crop of 5!

• Beginners Password Login Project
• Beginner Array Tutorial
• Fun User Input Project for Beginners
• Mastering Flow Control & Subroutines!
• Prevent Empty User Input with Message Prompts

Yours truly still finds the hands a bit distracting.

Call for papers

The call for papers for TPRC in Las Vegas on June 24-28 is now open!

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov has posted a video in which they show the conversion of a Jupyter notebook with Python code to a Mathematica notebook with Wolfram Language code. Using LLMs and the Raku Programming Language! (/r/rakulang comments). With an associated blog post (/r/rakulang comments).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #257 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Named arguments don’t respect canonical key => value convention (specific example of mm-dd-yyyy routine)
• Add .bufs/.blobs methods to IO::Path / IO::Handle

New Pull Requests

• de-LTA message on conversion from Int to int
• Provide native int coercers to Int/Cool

Core Developments

• Jan-Olof Hendig updated the version of libuv in MoarVM to 1.48.0
• Daniel Green provided a better error message when calling a sub / method with a typed array in its signature fails.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen streamlined a lot of NQP internals, resulting in marginally faster compile times in Rakudo.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Missing App::Fatpacker by VZ.
• One billion records by Samuel Chase.
• Polymod is useful! by Samuel Chase.
• A perfect use for grammars by Paul Buetow.
• Tend to use NYI by Daniel.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• A lot of issues by mennof.

Questions about Raku

• Rakudo can’t find libraries by DukeOfPurl.
• MAIN() function: how does multi-dispatch work? by 7stud.
• Function Signatures by 7stud.
• * vs $_ (asterisk v. the topic variable) by 7stud.

Comments

• Abound with features by Steve Roe.
• Unhighlighted comments by Hillel Wayne.
• Lazy at heart by Steve Roe.
• Favourite pair with Rust by JasonDoege.
• Perhaps more realistic by Samuel Chase.
• The meaning of pointy on Vediast.
• A real eye opener by Steve Roe.

New Raku Modules

• Compress::PDF “Provide PDF compression binary executables” by Tom Browder.
• PDF::ISO_32000_2 “PDF 2.0 Tables and roles, mined from the PDF ISO-32000-2 specification” by David Warring.
• Arithmetic::PaperAndPencil “Simulating paper-and-pencil techniques for basic arithmetic operations” by Jean Forget.

Updated Raku Modules

• Terminal::Widgets by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• zef, OpenSSL by Nick Logan.
• WWW::OpenAI, DSL::Entity::Metadata, DSL::Shared by Anton Antonov.
• Config::DataLang::Refine by Marcel Timmerman.
• HarfBuzz::Shaper::Cairo, PDF::Content, HTML::Canvas::To::PDF by David Warring.
• Configuration by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• YAMLScript by Ingy døt Net.
• Date::Event, Date::Names, LocalTime by Tom Browder.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.

Winding down

More videos! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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