Justin DeVuyst has produced the ninth Rakudo compiler release of 2024: 2024.09, a mostly bug-fixing release and one new Routine trait: is revision-gated. Binary packages will become available shortly, as well as updates to Rakudo Star, if they are not already. Kudos to all involved!

This marks the 25th release done by Justin DeVuyst, so an extra kudo is indicated for them!

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #289 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• What’s the point of proto anyway?

New Pull Requests

• Proc::Async PTY support

Core Developments

• Timo Paulssen fixed a potential crash with resizing arrays on MoarVM.
• Jan-Olof Hendig upped the dependency of MoarVM on libuv to 1.49.0.
• Will Coleda fixed several mojibake issues in Github rendering of pod files.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen made the Date.DateTime coercer timezone aware in 6.e, and merged / re-imagined a number of older Pull Requests:
  • Added a Mu.Callable($method-name) coercer.
  • Added Mu:D.ACCEPTS method (by the late Ben Davies)
  • Added :smartcase named argument to Str.(starts-with | substr-eq | ends-with | contains | indices | index | rindex) in 6.e
  • Added IO::Path.stem method in 6.e.
• Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer added HyperWhatever support for postcircumfix { } in 6.e.
• Salvador Ortiz fixed an issue with postfix with / without followed by postfix for.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Reading non-UTF8 files by VZ.
• A fractran model in Raku by Wim Vanderbauwhede.

Questions about Raku

• Why do DateTime.now and Date.today.DateTime have a different timezone? by ohmycloudy.

Comments about Raku

• Things I’ve Learned Serving on the Board by Makoto Nozaki.
• Sending mail from Raku by Steve Roe.
• On destructuring by Ralph Mellor.
• An Elm-like example by Steve Roe.
• Full join by first column by jubilatious1.
• On gradual typing by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• META::verauthapi “Apply :ver:auth:api from META on classes” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• HTML::Functional “Functional interface style for HTML tags and attributes” by Steve Roe.

Updated Raku Modules

• MacOS::NativeLib, actions, hide-methods, Interval, paths, Rake, String::Color, String::Fields, Sub::Memoized, Terminal::ANSIColor, Text::Flags, Text::MathematicalCase, unprint, Hash2Class, Updown, Discogs::API, ValueList, ValueMap, ValuePair, META::constants, Ecosystem::Archive::Update, MoarVM::Bytecode by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Terminal::UI by Brian Duggan.
• PDF, PDF::Content by David Warring.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.

Winding down

Quite a few core developments. And an anniversary for Justin! 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!