The number 2025 has quite a few numeric properties, as Anton Antonov shows in their already second blog post this year! The first being “Doomsday clock parsing and plotting” (/r/rakulang comments). What a way to start the year!

Make it legal

On the title “Happy 𝚺 (^10)»³“: only two small additions would be needed to make that legal Raku code:

sub Happy ($_) { say "Happy $_!" }
sub prefix:<𝚺>(\x) { x.sum }

Happy 𝚺 (^10)»³
# Happy 2025!

And who knows, maybe 𝚺 should become a prefix operator in the Raku Programming Language, for the mathematically inclined!

All 2024 Advent Posts And Comments

If you didn’t have time to read any or all of the 2024 Advent posts about the Raku Programming Language, then you can use this handy list, which also includes references to any comments made! And there’s also an updated version of the Raku 2024 Review.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #303 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Azure CI improvements taken from the recent Rakudo CI re-imagining
• [JVM] Reduce backend-specific code in find_best_dispatchee
• Get PRs working for everyone

Core Developments

• Timo Paulssen worked on making the MoarVM CI testing on Windows way faster.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A blog post update by Wendy van Dijk.

Questions about Raku

• Is there a way to have a short and two long command line argument alternatives for a parameter? by David Gordon.

Comments about Raku

• Doing alright by fragmede.
• Meaningful contributions by Samuel Chase.
• Plangs!

New Raku Modules

• CSS::Nested “CSS::Grammar, but nested” by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.

Updated Raku Modules

• SHAI by Nigel Hamilton.
• Astro::Sunrise by Tom Browder.
• Map::Leaflet by Brian Duggan.
• JavaScript::D3, FunctionalParsers, Math::Sequences by Anton Antonov.
• Identity::Utils, MoarVM::Bytecode, App::Ecosystems, Code::Coverable, Code::Coverage by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Rakuast::RakuDoc::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• Terminal-MakeRaw by Patrick Böker.
• Net::Ethereum by Konstantin Narkhov.
• Cromponent, Red by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• MeCab by Itsuki Toyota.
• Debugging::Tool by Luc St-Louis.
• YAMLish by Leon Timmermans.

Winding down

A lot of people slowly recovering from the Holiday season. Still, 12 authors updating at least one of their modules. Also not bad!

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

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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