Richard Hainsworth has blogged about their work on the new Raku documentation website, and how it will be possible to easily make suggestions for text improvements in: Editing RakuDoc, CRO’ing it to Github!

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov has published another video about nice visual examples of their Math::NumberTheory module in Number theory neat examples in Raku (Set 3) (/r/rakulang comments).

Steve’s Corner

Steve Roe has published another essay on the HARC Stack: HARC Stack: Semantic & HTMXy in which they investigate how well it pairs with Pico CSS (/r/rakulang comments).

Fernando’s Corner

Fernando Correa de Oliveira has added Raku syntax highlighting to their cromponent collection, as described in: A Raku Cromponent to Render Highlighted Code — Powered by RakuAST.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #317 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

A quiet week in preparation for the 2025.04 release.

• Elizabeth Mattijsen added support for MacOS “Sequoia”.

In RakuAST developments this week:

Some minor fixes and patches by Stefan Seifert, John Haltiwanger and Daniel Green with most of the work done on the “bootstrap-rakuast” branch.

The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 163/166 (make test +9) and 1349/1352 (make spectest +0).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• A new bestie by Mark Gardner.
• The vast majority by Massa Humberto.

Meanwhile on Bluesky

• How to remote the right way by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• rename and unc by ToddAndMargo.
• H9w do I print a structure? by ToddAndMargo.

Comments about Raku

• Not something boring by chuckadams.
• The Raku sentiment by Steve Roe.
• On the banning of “length“ by Ralph Mellor.
• On the “scannerless parser” by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• ERK “A templating engine for evaluating Raku code embedded in arbitrary text” by Ulisus Bortoletti.
• Date::Calendar::Armenian “Conversions from / to the Armenian calendar” by Jean Forget.

Updated Raku Modules

• Cromponent by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Dev::ContainerizedService by Jonathan Worthington.
• Tomtit by Alexey Melezhik.
• Lingua::NumericWordForms, LLM::RetrievalAugmentedGeneration by Anton Antonov.
• PDF by David Warring.
• zef by Nick Logan.
• Terminal-API, Cro::WebApp by Patrick Böker.
• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• Prompt by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Winding down

Yours truly will still be less online for most of the month of April, enjoying some deeply needed rest and recreation. But will most likely will be able to produce Rakudo Weekly News episodes.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 12 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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