Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer was inspired by a problem solving issue, and decided to ask a Llama: the result was a yaw dropping answer.

Conference Videos

The Raku videos of the conference in Las Vegas that have been uploaded so far:

• Red Migrations by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Raku Next Steps: Hyperactive Metang by Bruce Gray.

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik added a lot of features to Sparky, and blogged about it in: Sparky – composable user interfaces for internal services.

Scott’s Corner

Scott Sotka continued blogging about their project involving Pg Concurrency and the Raku Programming Language in: “Continued Learnings“.

Dr. Raku’s Corner

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

• Save Directory Entries To TXT File
• Rename Text Files
• Running Windows Programs

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #277 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Add simple use example
• Bump mimalloc to 2.1.7
• Update OS versions in Azure CI config

Core Developments

• Patrick Böker fixed an issue on MoarVM that would be triggered by a return in a LEAVE phaser.
• Daniel Green did some CI and code cleanup on the MoarVM backend.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen added .flat(:hammer) logic again, this time without triggering a JIT crash.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed some further issues with RakuDoc that were spotted by Richard Hainsworth, introduced the RakuAST::Deparse::Highlight module for Raku syntax highlighting using the Raku grammar, and fixed some highlighting issues in deparsing.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 144/153 (make test +0) and 1065/1356 (make spectest +2).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A lot to like by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Another way to checkout by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Newton Raphson by Suman Khanal.

Questions about Raku

• Looping through classes using require by Richard Hainsworth.
• What is the most Raku-like compiled language? by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Post RakuAST focus? by Profoundly Nerdy.

Comments

• Nice talk, TLDR; by Steve Roe.
• Phasers to the core by EricRiese.
• What happened to Perl 7? on Hacker News.
• On initializations by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• Terminal-MakeRaw “Switch a terminal to and from raw mode” by Patrick Böker.
• Config::Parser::NetRC “A NetRC parser for Config” by Humberto Massa.
• Physics::Vector “Physics::Vector with Units” by Steve Roe.
• Functional::LinkedList “Functional data structure linked list” by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Functional::Stack “Functional stack” by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Functional::Queue “Functional queue” by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.

Updated Raku Modules

• ValueClass, Functional::LinkedList by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Method::Protected by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• SSH::LibSSH::Tunnel, Net::NetRC, Mmap::Native, App::ShowPath by Humberto Massa.
• Graph, EBNF::Grammar, JavaScript::D3 by Anton Antonov.
• Math::Vector, Physics::Unit, Physics::Constants by Steve Roe.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• Algorithm::KdTree by Itsuki Toyota.
• MongoDB by Marcel Timmerman.

Winding down

Again some cool new modules! Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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