Steve Roe has started a series of blog posts about the marriage of Cro and HTMX, exciting stuff for people who’d like to get rid of the complexities of modern web development:

• Why Cro?
• Why HTMX?
• HTMX and Raku Cro (/r/htmx comments)

It definitely appeals to yours truly!

Dr. Raku’s Corner

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

• Update Array Using While Loop & Prompt

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #284 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed a potential dispatch error on Regex.Bool that could occur with / foo / in multi-threaded code.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Stefan Seifert continued working on RakuAST and fixed issues with the will trait, CHECK phasers, the use variables pragma, multi regexes and much more!
• Elizabeth Mattjsen made syntax highlighting more resilient towards undefined variables, types and subroutines, made it possible to allow RakuDoc markup inside code, and fixed various other issues with syntax highlighting.
• The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 142/153 (make test +0) and 1142/1355 (make spectest +24).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Implementing something like Hiera by Jonathan Stowe.

Questions about Raku

• Map at certain level of a tree by Both_Confidence_4147.

Comments

• Implemented on top of small core by WjU1fcN8.
• The Kendal Coefficient in Raku by sumanstats.
• Beautifully presented technical material by Ralph Mellor.
• Considered pure OO by Gugalcrom123.
• A version pragma by Matthew Stuckwisch.

New Raku Modules

• LLM::DWIM “Do What I Mean, with help from large language models” by Brian Duggan.
• HTML::Functional “Functional interface style for HTML tags and attributes” by Steve Roe.

Updated Raku Modules

• rak, App::Rak, String::Utils, ParaSeq, JSON::Fast::Hyper, Needle::Compile by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• License::SPDX by Jonathan Stowe.
• Net::Ethereum, Trove, Router::Right, Node::Ethereum::KeyStore::V3, Crypt::LibGcrypt, Crypt::LibScrypt, Ethelia by Konstantin Narkhov.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• CSS::TagSet by David Warring.

Winding down

Some cool web development goodies, and some cool RakuAST progress. Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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