Parrot 2.6.0 was released 15 years ago today.

Fernando’s Corner

Recently on IRC someone asked how to add methods to basic types, which reminded me of an old experimental project of mine: Protocol. Its goal is to explore a structural style of interface in Raku—distinct from Raku’s nominal roles—echoing how Go’s interfaces work by method shape rather than explicit declaration… Bringing Structural Protocols to Raku

Steve’s Corner

Steve continues the story with HARC Stack: Editing, the tenth in the series and shows Implementing the HTMX Edit Row example in HARC Stack.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #331 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Allow for private modules within a distribution
• Should duckmap work with code without explicit signatures?
• A PURL specification for Raku modules

New Pull Requests

• Elizabeth Mattijsen sets up a mailing list to discuss new Foundation and makes DateTime a ValueType.
• Pois.Nada eliminates an outdated reference to OpaquePointer and standardizes the reference to the metamodel.

Core Developments

• Skipping 2025-07 release by Justin DeVuyst.

Meanwhile on Bluesky

• runtime client interface for AWS Lambda by Jonathan Stowe.
• another nice Rakudo Weekly Newsletter by Wendy van Dijk.

Meanwhile on YouTube

• Raku 6.e by Will Coleda.
• Hypersonic by Bruce Gray.

Questions About Raku

• Destructuring assignment to non-scalar variables by fingolfin.
• How to install Rakudo-Star in WSL? by BaileysHuman.

Comments About Raku

• Sad thing is Perl6/Raku is a nice kitchen-sync language with some pretty sophisticated constructs!
• Rosetta Code/Rank languages by popularity #4 Raku 1676 97.27 % 3 1679
• 15 years ago today: Parrot VM 2.6.0 released

New Raku Modules

• PURL by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• UI::HTMLWindow by Matthew Stuckwisch.

Updated Raku Modules

• App::pack.raku by Francis Grizzly Smit.
• Test::Coverage and SBOM::CycloneDX by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Cro::HTTP by Patrick Böker.
• Resource::Wrangler by ab5tract.
• Sparrow6 by Alexey Melezhik.
• Air, Air::Examples and Air::Plugin::Hilite by Steve Roe.
• PublicSuffix by José Joaquín Atria.
• AI::Gator and Duckie by Brian Duggan.
• Text::Utils and PDF::NameTags by Tom Browder.
• SSH::LibSSH::Tunnel by Humberto Massa.
• Pod::To::PDF by David Warring.
• Terminal::ANSIColor and Number::Denominate by Raku Community.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• Template6 by David Romero.
• rawstr4c by ccmywish.

Winding down

Fernando continues to drive innovation in module land – showing Raku’s versatility to ape other language constructs (this time Go lang). Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 27 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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