Steve Roe continued their series about functional programming in the Raku Programming Language with Raku Burritos, looking at translating code from F# and introducing a >>= infix operator. Interesting stuff!

On Github

Will Coleda has posted a request for Github to make the ordering of the Rakudo release announcements a bit more logical.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #291 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Stringy feels over-engineered, partially implemented and bitrotted
• Exceptions need to become localizable
• roundrobin needs a metaoperator

New Pull Requests

• Remove playful “just yet” in error messages
• Make Map|Hash.new( a => 42, b => 666) more DWIM
• Make Int.uniname return a Failure on unassigned codepoints
• Make Rationals remember where they divided by 0

Core Developments

• Timo Paulssen continued working on Rakudo in Debian distribution.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen made Int ** Int up to 15% faster, made native coercers (such as .uint16) up to 50% faster, and made it possible to specify command line arguments with --repl-mode=interactive.
• And many, many smaller fixes and tweaks, and tests for many issues that could thus be closed.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• TIL by davidak.
• A good replacement for awk by Joseph Nuthalapati.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• Random Spirographs by Anton Antonov.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• A raku solution for stackexchange question by Marc Chantreux.
• Things I miss in Raku (from perl) by Marc Chantreux.
• Search brave.com’s AI and Raku by ToddAndMargo.

Questions about Raku

• What benefits does Raku have over Python? by hyperreal.

Comments about Raku

• On Raku and HTMX by Steve Roe.
• A new name by brianlarsen.
• An infinite loop by theangrypicbanana.
• Raku does that by Hillel Wayne.

Updated Raku Modules

• JavaScript::D3 by Anton Antonov.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• zef by Nick Logan.
• Intl::LanguageTag by Matthew Stuckwisch.

Winding down

Lots of small things getting fixed. And about 450 fewer open issues in Rakudo! Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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

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