The source of the Comma IDE has been made public in the Raku organization on Github. Kudos to the Edument Team on following up on their promise made in the original announcement. It’s now up to the Raku Community to continue development! (/r/rakulang comments)

More video tutorials

Dr Raku continued producing and posting beginner tutorial videos. This week a crop of four!

• Beginners Guide to String Concatenation
• Removing Array Elements with Splice
• How to Create Directories Easily
• Mastering Basic Regex

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov was very productive this week, with 3 blog posts and one video tutorial:

• LLM aids for processing Biden’s State of the Union address (/r/rakulang comments)
• WWW::Gemini
• WWW::LLaMA (/r/rakulang comments)
• LLaMA models running guide (/r/rakulang comments)

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #261 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Anton Oks added a release build workflow for MoarVM in Github Actions.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen added still more nqp::const:: entries and used these in Rakudo (mostly for better maintainability) and continued working on the Metamodel classes for faster compilation and performance and better stability.
• Daniel Green made sure that the NQPP5Regex module is only re-compiled on NQP if really necessary.
• And some other tweaks and fixes.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• No nostr! by WeAreTheOil.
• What got you? by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Not necessarily good by Massa Humberto.
• A fun one-liner by arky.
• More my speed by Kenneth Freeman.
• With shortcutting by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Your next character by Curtis Poe.

Questions about Raku

• Remove all lines between two similar patterns if a specific pattern in between is not matched by jubilatious1.
• Is it possible to append subroutines to a Raku module at runtime? by Rawley Fowler.

Comments

• A sort of smoke test for Ponie by okwhateverdude.
• Can we have a “raku” tag? by lucs.
• I bounced by justinator.
• Registration is open! by talexb.
• Raku adaptation of HOP? by Qem.

New Raku Modules

• Devel::ExecRunnerGenerator “A tool to generate native wrapper executables” by Patrick Böker.

Updated Raku Modules

• WWW::Gemini, WWW::LLaMA, LLM::Functions by Anton Antonov.
• File::Temp by Tom Browder.
• Audio::Fingerprint::Chromaprint, Audio::Convert::Samplerate, Audio::Sndfile by Jonathan Stowe.
• Marrow by Scott Sotka.
• App::Unicode::Mangle by Will Coleda.
• YAMLScript by Ingy døt Net.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.

Winding down

Calling all stations! Comma needs help! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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