Hillel Wayne has published a blog about those silly ternary operators in quite a few programming languages, with the Raku Programming Language being one of them: A list of ternary operators! (HackerNews comments)

Eyes Needed!

Richard Hainsworth asks you to have a look at the code example syntax highlighting of the Raku documentation, which is now based on Patrick Böker‘s Rainbow module.

London Workshop Video

Only one Raku related video has become available from the London Workshop: Using new RakuDoc v2 by Richard Hainsworth. Sadly, the audio quality of the presentation is not very good: switching on auto-generated subtitles may be helpful.

Steffen’s Corner

Steffen Schwigon updated their Raku diary with the latest findings in their journey into the Raku realm!

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik used Raku as super glue to Go in: Go pipelines with Raku interfaces.

habere-et-dispere’s Corner

Habere-et-dispere reacted to zeekar’s question with Abuzz with FizzBuzz.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #295 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Rakudo should ship with a usable REPL that can be easily extended by user code

New Pull Requests

• Attempt to get all nursery areas into one memory area
• Add missing mode initializers to socket function pointer structs

Core Developments

• Jan-Olof Hendig upped the dependency on libuv to 1.49.2.
• Timo Paulssen made sure that threads in Rakudo are better named for introspection.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen removed the automatic rlwrap wrapping of the REPL because it interfered with the repl subroutine.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Took some time to grok by Steffen Schwigon.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Is there a Terminal::ANSIcolor for Windows? by ToddAndMargo.

Questions about Raku

• Another APLish FizzBuzz in Raku? by zeekar.

Comments about Raku

• On deep support for Unicode and regexes by Steve Roe.
• Fewer characters is not simpler by eesmith.
• Tension between allowing functional and being functional by Steve Roe.

New Raku Modules

• Acme::Rautavistic::Sort “Rautavistic sort functions” by Steffen Schwigon.
• Stomp “A Raku STOMP (Simple Text Orientated Messaging Protocol) implementation” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Updated Raku Modules

• Bitcoin::Core::Secp256k1 by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Sequence::Generator, MoarVM::Remote, POFile, ECMA262Regex, JSON::Mask, Badger, App::MoarVM::Debug, SSH::LibSSH, JSON::Path, OO::Actors, HTTP::HPACK, Test::Mock, IO::Socket::Async::SSL, Data::TextOrBinary, Concurrent::Queue, OO::Monitors, Concurrent::Stack, App::InstallerMaker::WiX by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Graph, Jupyter::Chatbook by Anton Antonov.
• Gnome::N, Gnome::Glib, Gnome::GObject, Gnome::Gio, Gnome::Pango, Gnome::Graphene, Gnome::Gsk4, Gnome::Gdk4, Gnome::GdkPixbuf, Gnome::Gtk4 by Marcel Timmerman.
• Font::FreeType by David Warring.
• Physics::Unit by Steve Roe.
• YAMLScript by Ingy Döt Net.

Winding down

Quite a few modules migrated to Raku Community modules! Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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