Marc Carson continued blogging, this week with “Detect Incoming Asteroids! …With JPL, NASA, and Raku“. A nice tutorial indeed about using external information resources in every day life!

Ralph’s Corner

Ralph Mellor cross-posted a post by Curtis Poe about the status of using the OpenAI API, to start a discussion about the situation in /r/rakulang.

Steve’s Corner

Steve Roe has been collecting unattributed and unsolicited comments for while, and collected them in a blog post with love.

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov blogs about the visualization of the history of programming languages in “Age at creation for programming languages stats” (/r/rakulang comments).

Dr. Raku’s Corner

Dr Raku‘s beginner tutorial videos of the past week:

• Create Text File Using Spurt
• Create & Read Text File

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #271 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Enabling no strict for raku one-liners (and perhaps REPL)

New Pull Requests

• Give META_REDUCE_RIGHT behavior for 1-arg case
• Provide some fixups to experimental :cached

Core Developments

• John Haltiwanger added the error result code to any failed spawn (allowing for better error reporting in e.g. run), provided better feedback for ambiguous adverb usage, and better error reporting on IO::Handle.lock.
• Will Coleda fixed the rendering of the Z<> markup in Pod::To::Text.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen added support for .are(type) in 6.e.PREVIEW.
• And quite a few smaller fixes and tweaks.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• John Haltiwanger added a test file dedicated to tests that appear to pass on RakuAST now, to make sure there are no regressions during the further development of RakuAST. They also added support for the -n and -p command-line options.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 143/152 (make test +1) and 1063/1356 (make spectest +0).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Playing with it by Massa Humberto.
• Added auto-completion by russianspy.
• Useful things by Marc Carson.

Questions about Raku

• How to set a named parameter to an exported sub when importing a module? by Jim Bollinger.

Comments

• A supportive and active community by Steve Roe.
• On uniform function calling by Ralph Mellor.
• A good intro to Unicode by Steve Roe.
• Your best bets by klibertp.
• Needs cleaning up by ofrzeta.

New Raku Modules

• Cache::Dir “A simple key-value store using the filesystem” by Brian Duggan.
• Geo::Basic “Basic routines for geospatial calculations” by Brian Duggan.

Updated Raku Modules

• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• License::SPDX by Jonathan Stowe.
• Term::Choose, Term::TablePrint, Term::Choose::Util by Matthäus Kiem.
• Font::FreeType by David Warring.
• JavaScript::D3, Data::Importers, DSL::Shared, DSL::English::DataQueryWorkflows by Anton Antonov.
• hyperize, ParaSeq by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Winding down

A lot happening in the Rakudo core again. Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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