Steve Roe continued their stack of essays on HARC with a sixth episode: HARC Stack: Navigation in which it is shown how easy it is to add navigation components to your web pages.

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov returned with an extensive blog post about visualizing the Collatz conjecture with some really visually compelling graphics! And there’s also a Bulgarian version in honor of the most Bulgarian holiday!

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #323 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Daniel Green fixed some compiler warnings on MoarVM.
• Jan-Olof Hendig bumped libuv to version 1.51.0.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue with [\,].
• Patrick Böker updated the pre-built release pipeline from CentOS 7 to Ubuntu 16.04.
• Will Coleda refined the release process documentation.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• John Haltiwanger improved error reporting around named subset parameters.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed an issue with interning of large literal integer values, and fixed some over-eager worries.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• How do I hide a variable from viewing by ToddAndMargo.
• Raku one-liners posted on Unix & Linux StackExchange by William Michels.
• How do I do this pop up? by ToddAndMargo.
• Raku-toml confusion by ToddAndMargo.

Comments about Raku

• Can target the JVM by cestith.
• Check out grammars! by Steve Roe.
• Roast may be of interest by Ralph Mellor.
• repl as a function by Ralph Mellor.

New Raku Modules

• RakuDoc::Load “Loads and compiles the RakuDoc documentation from a string or file” by Tom Browder.
• Terminal::QuickCharts “Simple charts for CLI tools” by Geoffrey Broadwell.

Updated Raku Modules

• App::Crag by Steve Roe.
• WWW::OpenAI, WWW::YouTube, Statistics::Distributions, JavaScript::D3 by Anton Antonov.
• Log::Async by Brian Duggan.
• Pod::To::PDF, Text::FriBidi by David Warring.
• Image::PNG::Portable, Math::Symbolic, Pray by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• GtkLayerShell by Siavash Askari Nasr.
• IUP by 0rir.
• Astro::Utils, DateTime::Julian by Tom Browder.
• CBOR::Simple by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Elucid8::Build, Rakuast::RakuDoc::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• GLib, GIO by Clifton Wood.

Winding down

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 18 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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