Elizabeth Mattijsen makes the case to start a (global) Raku Foundation in Europe in Towards a Raku Foundation, with an associated problem solving issue. If you have any thoughts on this, be sure to make them known in the issue, or send an email to foundation@raku.org. Thank you!

Raku In Compiler Explorer

Thanks to the work of Timo Paulssen, the Compiler Explorer website by Matt Godbolt now also supports Rakudo on MoarVM. Especially interesting for all of you who really want, or need to get down to the metal!

Writing in Japanese

Erry Kostala has made a video about how they write Raku programs in Japanese using the as yet unpublished L10N::JA module. And how the code can actually be hand-written!

Patrick’s Corner

Patrick Böker blogged about how they experienced the Second Raku Core Summit.

Timo’s Corner

Timo Paulssen was inspired by their attendance of the Second Raku Core Summit to revive their blog site with the first new blog post in almost 6 years: Can you say that again? You can say that again! (/r/rakulang comments).

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov ventured into the area of literate programming tools while focussing on Raku in Parameterized Literate Programming (/r/rakulang comments).

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #327 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Towards a Raku Foundation

Core Developments

• Daniel Green bumped the version of mimalloc used by MoarVM, and made IO::Handle.open about 50% faster.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen made Mu.item return a read-only container, rather than a decontainerized value, and fixed several issues in the 6.e language level testing in roast.
• Timo Paulssen fixed a segfault in some corner case of calling .ACCEPTS.

In RakuAST developments:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen unbitrotted localization support and added localization support for core enums, and disallowed using a higher language version in EVAL, and made the RAKU_LANGUAGE_VERSION environment variable fully functional.
• John Haltiwanger fixed the parsing of *>>.foo.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Posted to my blog! by Timo Paulssen.
• Time for more fun! by Salve J. Nilsen.

Meanwhile on Bluesky

• Pretty easy in Raku by Simon Proctor.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Discussion of problems with $/? by Joseph Brenner.

Questions about Raku

• Raku modules not found when run in Cron job by BaileysHuman.
• Shouldn’t the compiler warn about this behaviour? by Christiaan Kras.

Comments about Raku

• That’s all for tonight by Ralph Mellor.
• Started using repl debugging by Steve Roe.
• Hard to find a suitable unicode glyph by Steve Roe.
• Not divisible by 4096? by jubilatious1.

New Raku Modules

• Zeco “An ecosystem hosting module for raku” by Tony O’Dell.

New Raku Modules by Danslav Slavenskoj

Again this week, Danslav Slavenskoj authored a number of new modules. The size of the code and documentation produced, points to the use of AI in the creation of these modules.

• Inline::BASIC “Classic Line-Numbered BASIC interpreter for Raku”.
• Inline::Python3 “Python 3 integration for Raku”.
• YakShave “Parse and analyze yak shaving stories”.

Updated Raku Modules

• DAWG by Danslav Slavenskoj.
• L10N::NL, L10N::EN, L10N::DE, L10N::FR, L10N::HU, L10N::IT, L10N::PT, L10N, Random::Names by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Sparrowdo by Alexey Melezhik.
• Lingua::NumericWordForms, Text::CodeProcessing by Anton Antonov.
• Gnome::Gdk4 by Marcel Timmerman.

Winding down

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 23 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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