Steve Roe continued their stack of essays on HARC with a fourth episode: HARC Stack: Semantic Time in which they show how to do it right without repeating yourself!

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik provided a brief overview of Sparky’s architecture design, a distributed jobs framework for orchestration of remote tasks (/r/rakulang /c/rakulang comments).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #321 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Stefan Seifert removed an obscure, undocumented and untested way of specifying a type in the Parameter constructor.
• John Haltiwanger made locally defined entities visible as arguments to MAIN handling.

Questions about Raku

• A tool to beautify XPath expressions by Christiaan Kras.

Comments about Raku

• On concise and expressive code by Steve Roe.
• A bit shaky by SilentTeee.

Updated Raku Modules

• Resource::Wrangler by John Haltiwanger.
• RakuConfig, Rakuast::RakuDoc::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• PDF::Content by David Warring.
• JSON::Unmarshal by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Intl::LanguageTag by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• Pod::TreeWalker by Tom Browder.
• BSON by Marcel Timmerman.
• WWW::Gemini, WWW::OpenAI by Anton Antonov.
• Text::Diff::Sift4 by Daniel Green.
• Physics::Unit, Air, Air::Play by Steve Roe.
• Log::Async by Brian Duggan.
• GLFW by Brian S. Northrup.

Winding down

Feeling much better the past week, thank you for all best wishes!

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 16 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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