Hillel Wayne has written a blog post about various “toolbox languages”, of which they consider the Raku Programming Language to be one: “for personal scripting and toolkits, it’s incredible”! (/r/rakulang, lobste.rs comments).

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov has produced a very nice video with graphical examples of their Graph and other Raku modules.

Dr. Raku’s Corner

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

• Password Length & Numbers Check
• While Loop Update Array

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #279 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Add :by to .min / .max / .minmax

Core Developments

• Patrick Böker fixed an issue in IO::Socket when switching between binary / non-binary reads.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed a thinko in the BUILDPLAN developer module.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue in deparsing on $.foo, and continued tweaking the functionality of the RakuAST::Deparse::Highlight module for Raku syntax highlighting, as well as tweaking some associated deparsing logic.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A great language for CLIs and one-off things by Joseph Nuthalapati.
• Need more such killer apps by Samuel Chase.

Questions about Raku

• Raku Actions Predicated on Parse Success? by user2023370.
• How to avoid copying parameters within function by Suman Khanal.
• How to turn strings like \u062d\u0633\u0646 to appropriate utf format by Both_Confidence_4147.

Comments

• On normalization of graphemes by Ralph Mellor.
• Beneficial to both newbies and veterans by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Not like the situation with Raku by Ralph Mellor.
• A meta PL platform, from scratch by Ralph Mellor.
• A Contact language by Steve Roe.
• On waterbeds by Brad Gilbert.

New Raku Modules

• IO-Socket-TLSViaAsync “Interface for TLS connections” by Patrick Böker.
• Debugging::Tool “Print debugging info during development” by Luc St-Louis.

Updated Raku Modules

• FDF, PDF::Native, PDF::Grammar, PDF, PDF::Content, PDF::Class by David Warring.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• bird by Alexey Melezhik.
• JavaScript::D3, Graph, WWW::OpenAI by Anton Antonov.
• App::Crag, Physics::Constants, Physics::Unit by Steve Roe.
• IO::Socket::Async::SSL by Jonathan Worthington.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Hash::Agnostic, Map::Agnostic, Hash::Ordered, Hash::Sorted, Array::Agnostic, Array::Sparse, List::Agnostic by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• zef by Nick Logan.

Winding down

Some interesting new modules, and some nice references outside the echo chamber. Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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