Long time Raku contributor Paul Cochrane returns with an extensive introduction to enable Continuous Integration on Raku projects using AppVeyor in “Building and testing Raku in AppVeyor“. Kudos to Paul and welcome back!

Dr. Raku’s Corner

Dr Raku continued producing and posting beginner tutorial videos:

• How To Delete Directories
• Fun File Beginners Project
• Hash Examples

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #262 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen continued working on the Metamodel classes for faster compilation and performance and better stability.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Stefan Seifert fixed several BEGIN time lookup issues, making 9 more tests pass!
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue with =finish if there was no code.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 139/151 (make test +1) and 993/1356 (make spectest +8).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A nice shoutout! by Samuel Chase.
• Self-awareness test by Fernando Santagata.
• A deep rabbit hole by Paul Cochrane.

Questions about Raku

• How to obtain the Raku language documentation ( Reference) offline by anavarro.

Comments

• On ^ and $ by Moritz Lenz.
• The latest name by LanX.
• Automatic parsing of args by ilyash.
• Certainly looks nice by emporas.
• Went quite bad by faiface.
• On Raku’s design decisions regarding operators by Ralph Mellor.
• An example Packer file by option.

New Raku Modules

• Data::Importers “Various data importing routines with a unified interface” by Anton Antonov.

Updated Raku Modules

• YAMLScript by Ingy døt Net.
• Sparrow6, Sparky by Alexey Melezhik.
• Devel::ExecRunnerGenerator by Patrick Böker.
• PDF::Extract by Steve Roe.

Winding down

A bit of a quiet week apart from some wonderful surprises! Meanwhile, Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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