John Haltiwanger has almost single-handedly revived the Comma IDE as a community supported IntelliJ plugin, in Introducing Comma 2.0… (/r/rakulang, programming.dev comments).

From the bottom of my heart, I want to express the deepest gratitude and thanks to Jonathan Worthington, Edument, and all past and future contributors to the Comma project. There’s been so much effort put into this codebase and it was an honor to be able to work on it.

Looking forward to seeing Comma moving ahead even further!

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #287 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Declarator Docs are evil and should be eradicated

New Pull Requests

• Improve NAN and INFINITY definitions for MSVC
• Test windows-latest with older rakudo
• Try improving the azure pipeline (focus on windows builds)

Core Developments

• Timo Paulssen has been spending many hours trying to get the Azure CI pipelines on Windows in such a shape that they can actually provide useful feedback on test failures.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed some more deparsing and highlighting issues and made --rakudoc by default create safe RakuDoc (as in without any compilable code).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• What’s stopping you? by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• A better diagnostic, please? by Julia.

Questions about Raku

• When whenever block in react section starts processing events? by Pawel Pabian bbkr (with a commentless, musically challenged YouTube ripoff, presumably to make money of adverts).
• Default definedness? by Julia.

Comments about Raku

• Absolutely original, brand new! by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Another way to understand by Ralph Mellor.
• Slurp and spit out by Zapwai.

New Raku Modules

• Cro::WebApp::Evaluate “Add <?raku …> to HTML” by Steve Roe.

Updated Raku Modules

• Math::DistanceFunctions::Edit, Math::DistanceFunctions::Native, WWW::OpenAI by Anton Antonov.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.
• HTML::Entity::Fast, HTML::Strip by Elzabeth Mattijsen.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• PDF::Content by David Warring.

Winding down

A lot of work on infrastructure, and more coming soon. 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!