A potential defacement of a blog spotted by Ralph Mellor, showed the importance of the Raku Collect, Conserve and Remaster Project. So if you’re looking around for something to do in the holiday season (or any other time of the year): any work on this project would be deeply appreciated!

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov has re-worked their video presentation of last week into a blog post titled “Geographic Data in Raku Demo“.

Dr. Raku’s Corner

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

• Lock Unlock Folders

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #275 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen added some warnings / errors to .deepmap, .duckmap and .nodemap to prevent LTA errors, and made Seq.end return a Failure rather than throwing an exception.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• 5 > 100 by Ashwan Dixit.
• Nerd sniped myself by Kay Rhodes.
• Would that be crazy? by Ada Stevenson.

Questions about Raku

• Distributing Raku Programs
• Grammar stuck in loop by Both_Confidence_4147.

Comments

• Attributed to linguistic concepts by Summer.
• Are we missing something? by Ralph Mellor.
• Could be fun! by vessenes.
• Reminds me… by Ralph Mellor.
• Comma is the list constructor by Ralph Mellor.
• For old time’s sake by samatman.

New Raku Modules

• Math::Polynomial::Chebyshev “Functionalities based on Chebyshev polynomials” by Anton Antonov.
• Graph “Discrete mathematics graph data structures and algorithms” by Anton Antonov.

Updated Raku Modules

• MongoDB by Marcel Timmerman.
• Collection by Richard Hainsworth.
• Math::Fitting, WWW::Gemini, JavaScript::D3 by Anton Antonov.
• ParaSeq by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Git::Status by Tom Browder.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• IO-Archive by Scott Sotka.
• Slang::Roman, Physics::Unit, Physics::Measure, Physics::Navigation by Steve Roe.

Winding down

A bit of a quiet week. Vacation, Soccer, good weather and an upcoming release. Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

If you like what I’m doing, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal!