And the American constitution thrown in! Anton Antonov mixes all of these in the blog post “US Constitution vs Plants vs Zombies” (/r/rakulang comments) about another use of Large Language Model workflows. With some amazing textual and visual results!

More video tutorials

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

• Sort Array Example
• Unlocking the Power of For Loops
• Array Grep Search Function
• Text Files: Create & Read
• Create Text File On Desktop

Hillel’s Corner

Hillel Wayne dives into Picat (a research language) and uses the Raku Programming Language to format the result in: Planner programming blows my mind (lobste.rs comments)

Wenzel’s Corner

Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer dived deeper into lol contexts, and found some subroutines missing in the core, and made a Pull Request for it.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #258 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Implement sub form of &trans, mainly to support feed operators

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen added support for TWEAK methods in NQP: now all TWEAK methods in roles are also executed on object creation in NQP. Streamlining a lot of NQP classes, as well as Raku Metamodel classes, continued.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• More billion records by Samuel Chase.
• Becoming a “top” voice by Samuel Chase.
• Generating Gemini by Samuel Chase.
• If it works, it works by Paul Buetow.
• Playing with components by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Ungenerated code generating by Paul Buetow.

Questions about Raku

• Mapping a List with a Hash argument by 7stud.
• subset name of Any where Str|True: why does the name type match every type? by 7stud.
• Raku exceptions: why are errors thrown sometime after the code that caused the errors? by 7stud.

Comments

• Most direct support by emmanueloga_.
• Prefer gradual typing by Steve Roe.
• Weighing in at 25 LoC by Ralph Mellor.
• Fits my brain by anonzzzies.
• Rotoring by jubilatious1.
• Giving what! away? by Darrel-Yurychuk.

New Raku Modules

• Asserter “Be assertive in the form assert EXPR, MESSAGE?” by Mustafa Aydın.
• BuildToolchainRepo “Repository of compiler build toolchains” by Patrick Böker.
• SSH::LibSSH::Tunnel “Establish remote forwarding SSH tunnel” by Humberto Massa.

Updated Raku Modules

• LibraryMake by JJ Merelo.
• Digest::SHA256::Native by Brian Duggan.
• Date::Christian::Advent, Date::Easter, DateTime::US, Date::Event, LocalTime, QueryOS, Mi6::Helper by Tom Browder.
• PDF::API6, PDF::Class by David Warring.
• DSL::Shared, DSL::English::DataQueryWorkflows, DSL::Entity::Geographics, Data::Geographics by Anton Antonov.
• YAMLScript by Ingy døt Net.
• Terminal::Widgets by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Node::Ethereum::KeyStore::V3 by Konstantin Narkhov.
• YAMLish by Leon Timmermans.
• Red by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• MongoDB by Marcel Timmerman.

Winding down

Now two years (others would say 10 years), still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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