Steve Roe continued their stack of essays on HARC with a fifth episode: HARC Stack: Mini(mal) in which they show how to use the .assuming method to set up the contents of a not so simple web page.

Rakudo Compiler Release

Justin DeVuyst has produced the fifth release of the Rakudo compiler for the Raku Programming Language in 2025: 2025.05. This release fixes a nasty bug in LEAVE handling on MoarVM, makes .classify / .categorize return proper object hashes, adds an IO::Path.readlink method and makes locally defined entities visible as arguments to MAIN handling.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #322 is available for your perusal.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Why so seemingly underappreciated? by Profoundly Nerdy.
• Of course, Raku! by arky.
• SHA-3 in Raku by Gérald Doussot.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Who owns the code? by ToddAndMargo.
• New win rakudo by ToddAndMargo.

Comments about Raku

• Changed a lot of defaults by jiehong.
• On accents by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• The ‘killer’ domain by Steve Roe.
• Disagree with the syntax by ilyash.

Updated Raku Modules

• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• CodeUnit by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Pod::To::PDF::Lite, Text::FriBidi, Pod::To::PDF, PDF::Content by David Warring.
• TinyFloats, Terminal::LineEditor by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Term::Choose, Term::TablePrint by Matthäus Kiem.
• Sparrow6, Sparrowdo by Alexey Melezhik.
• Bin::Utils by Tom Browder.
• TAP, App::Prove6 by Leon Timmermans.
• Debugging::Tool, Test::Selector by Luc St-Louis.

Winding down

A bit of a quiet week. Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 17 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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