A new bot has appeared on the #raku-dev IRC channel: “rakkable”, which allows for searches in all of the active modules in the Raku ecosystem (currently about 11000 files). Like other bots, it can be address by mentioning it at the start of a line, followed by a colon, e.g. “rakkable: eco-provides frobnicate“.

It’s still very young and pretty experimental, so please be gentle in its usage! Once more mature, it will be rolled out to other Raku-related IRC channels.

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik has published a Sparrowdo cookbook this week, which guides you through remotely managing your hosts over ssh (/r/rakulang comments).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #308 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Some simplifications to MVM_string_utf8_decode

Core Developments

• Daniel Green slightly optimized Latin1 decoding on MoarVM, probably on Intel hardware only.
• Timo Paulssen made accesses to spesh arg guards atomic, fixing a race condition on ARM hardware.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen made Int.uniname return a Failure in 6.e for unassigned codepoints, and made .head() / .first() / .tail() on native arrays return a left-value, just like on other Iterables.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Almost completely covered by Lord Doctor Olle W.
• What qualities are needed? by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Love to do more coding by Paul Buetow.

Meanwhile on Bluesky

• Harden sysctl.conf by Alexey Melezhik.
• Released on Monday by Wendy van Dijk.
• Ready to cook by Alexey Melezhik.
• Now with Template6 by Alexey Melezhik.

Questions about Raku

• Really slow compilation of a big grammar by fingolfin.
• How to upgrade Rakudo Star by vincentaxhe.

Comments about Raku

• Did a kind thing by kazinator.
• The complete Raku Course on DeepSoft.
• The only difference by Ralph Mellor.
• On constant folding by Ralph Mellor.
• Reading form scalars eagerly by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• Ecosystem::Cache “Maintain a local cache of an ecosystem” by Elizabeth Mattijsen
• Geo::Polyline “Encode and decode Google polyline strings” by Brian Duggan.
• App::Rak::Markdown “Convert App::Rak output to Markdown” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• IRC::Client::Plugin::Rakkable “Local rak searches by bot” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Updated Raku Modules

• Qt::QtWidgets by Yves Guillemot.
• Slang::Date by Will Coleda.
• Fortune by Samuel Young.
• Identity::Utils, Ecosystem, CLI::Ecosystem, App::Rak by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• HTML::Functional by Steve Roe.
• Sparrowdo by Alexey Melezik.
• PDF::Content by David Warring.
• Red by Fernando Correa de Oliveira.
• Gnome::Graphene by Marcel Timmerman.

Winding down

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 3 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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