Alexey’s Corner
Alexey Melezhik shows his Sparrow6 the Swiss Army knife for Alpine Linux.
Tim’s Corner
RaClU: Raku Classification Unification is the latest post by Tim Nelson. He makes the case for unifying Raku classifications.
John’s Corner
John Haltiwanger introduces his latest Resource::Wrangler module. A good read for those of us who have wrestled with Build.rakumod.
Anton’s Corner
Some very pretty Number Theory examples from Anton Antonov for those that like number theory.
Fernando’s Corner
ECS in Raku: A Toy Framework for Entities, Components, and Systems by Fernando Correa de Oliveira explores some fascinating ideas about ECS in Raku speak.
Steve’s Corner
Steve witters on with HARC Stack: Todoing, the eleventh in the series and shows Implementing the world famous Todo example in HARC Stack.
Weeklies
Weekly Challenge #332 is available for your perusal.
New Problem Solving Issues
Core Developments
Questions About Raku
- Test failure when installing Math::Libgsl::BLAS on Arch by Ralf Muschall.
Comments About Raku
- Proxmox Donates €10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation by Olaf Alders.
- Entities are just unique identifiers… by Raiph.
- with Raku’s powerful, yet simple, OO… by Steve Roe.
- Code LLMs have been widely used in various domains… by Siming Huang et al.
- the “!” twigil is used to access private attributes… on Wikipedia.
- Think of modules as reusable blueprints… by Tux Machines.
- You can use Raku/Sparrow for that. by Alexey Melezhijk.
New Raku Modules
- PDF::NameTags by Tom Browder.
- SBOM::Raku by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- App::JSONDiff and App::FIT2GPX by demanuel.
- L10N::ZH by Aoran Zeng.
- L10N::EO by Daniel Mita.
Updated Raku Modules
- rawstr4c by ccmywish.
- App::pack.raku by Francis Grizzly Smit.
- PURL, Identity::Utils, String::Utils, ValueList, SBOM::CycloneDX and L10N::Complete by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- Air by Steve Roe.
- Text::Utils and Compress::PDF by Tom Browder.
- PublicSuffix by José Joaquín Atria.
- Bitcoin::Core::Secp256k1 by Konstantin Narkhov.
- PDF::Content, PDF, PDF::Class and PDF::API6 by David Warring.
- JavaScript::D3 and WWW::YouTube by Anton Antonov.
- Resource::Wrangler by ab5tract.
- OpenSSL by Raku Community.
Winding down
A busy week of Raku blogging with 6 corners … that makes it a hexagonal week! (geddit?) Plenty of innovations and insights to peruse. Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 28 of hopefully only 209.
Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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