Richard Hainsworth continued their journey in allowing visitors to the Raku documentation site to be able to suggest changes with minimal fuss, in: A coordinated dance to identify the editor.

Fernando’s Corner

Fernando Correa de Oliveira didn’t forget testing of Raku applications in: Testing Raku Applications with Cro, Red, and RedFactory.

Foundation News

Saif Ahmed has published the overview of Stefan Seifert‘s work on RakuAST in: RakuAST Project Final Grant Report (and the circle is complete :-).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #319 and Weekly Challenge #320 are available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Timo Paulssen may have killed a gremlin in MoarVM by marking a frame’s unwind data payload as garbage-collectable.
• Will Coleda improved some release helper scripts.
• Daniel Green made some attribute accesses more consistent.

Questions about Raku

• What is an idiomatic way to convert a query to a hash by Richard Hainsworth.
• How do I get a count of duplicate lines using Raku? by Richard Hainsworth.

Comments about Raku

• In sadly inconsistent ways by Steve Roe.
• Takes on composition by Ralph Mellor.
• On universal calling syntax by Hillel Wayne.
• Hard to imagine travelling by busy_falling.
• A minimal website by Steve Roe.
• Some loop specific phasers by option.
• Dynamic UX backend frameworks by Steve Roe.

New Raku Modules

• Elucid8::Run-locally “Runs a local Elucid8-build generated web site in a browser” by Richard Hainsworth.
• Resource::Wrangler “Create a path to a resource bundled in your Raku distribution” by John Haltiwanger.

Updated Raku Modules

• Sparrow6, Sparrowdo, Sparky-Job-Api by Alexey Melezhik.
• LLM::Containerization, WWW::YouTube, LLM::Functions, LLM::RetrievalAugmentedGeneration, WWW::LLaMA by Anton Antonov.
• PDF, PDF::Native, PDF::To::Cairo, Pod::To::PDF::Lite, CSS::Properties, CSS::Stylesheet by David Warring.
• TOP by Tim Nelson.
• OpenSSL, MacOS::NativeLib, IO::Socket::SSL, as-cli-arguments, Locale::Dates, DateTime::strftime, HTTP::UserAgent by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• LLM::DWIM, Pod::To::Raku by Brian Duggan.
• Math::Matrix by Herbert Breunung.
• Elucid8::Build by Richard Hainsworth.
• Terminal-API by Patrick Böker.
• RKDS by Ulisus Bortoletti.
• Net::Snapcast by Adrian Kreher.
• Image::Libexif by Fernando Santagata.
• Terminal::Print by Geoffrey Broadwell.

Winding down

Finally recovering from a very heavy cold appears to be in sight.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after weeks 14/15 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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