Liz’s Corner

Elizabeth Mattijsen continued to whip up a storm with her series on SBOM for Raku. This week was the turn of both CycloneDX Support and PURL Support. [ed. surely that is spelled wrong!]

Liz also shared the FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation next year to be held in Brussels – mark the date in your diary and be sure to speak up on the IRCchat if you support a Raku Developer Room.

Fernando’s Corner

Fernando Correa de Oliveira describes Typed, Named Endpoints for Cro (with HTMX Helpers) … Cro’s HTTP router is great at declaring routes, but it doesn’t provide a first‑class way to reference those routes elsewhere in your app. Cro::HTTP::RouterUtils fills that gap: it lets you reference endpoints by name, build typed-safe paths, generate HTMX attributes, redirect to routes, and even call the underlying implementation.

Alexey’s Corner

After one Rakulang community member and bio informatics developer mentioned the Nexflow data pipeline framework, Alexey Melezhik was surprised that Sparky and Sparrow6 eco system could be a good fit for such a type of tasks … and shared his Data pipelines with Rakulang and Sparky. He also wrote about Tomtit – simple CLI task runner …

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov provides some visual dictionaries for the interpretation of graph-plots of LLM-graphs.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #340 is available for your edification.

New Pull Requests

• Address problems with BEGIN/CHECK and $=finish and friends by ab5tract.
• [Snyk] Security upgrade ubuntu from 16.04 to 22.04 by coke.

Questions about Raku

• Why is the deep cloned object still linked? by Richard Hainsworth.
• What’s a formatter like gofmt, rustfmt, etc. but for Raku …? by safety-4th.

Comments About Raku

• This reminds me of Raku’s whenever by raiph.

Meanwhile on BlueSky

• Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation by perl.com.

New Raku Modules

• DataStar by Arun Vickram.

Updated Raku Modules

• Rainbow by Patrick Böker.
• Text::Template, Grammar::Tracer::Compact, Data::Dump::Tree by Nadim Khemir.
• Log::Async by Brian Duggan.
• PDF, Pod::To::PDF::Lite, Pod::To::PDF by David Warring.
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net.
• Physics::Error, Physics::Measure by Steve Roe.
• LLM::Prompts by Anton Antonov.
• Sparrow6 by Alexey Melezhik.
• L10N::ZH by Various Artistes.

Winding down

Thanks to Liz for sharing the call for participation on a FOSDEM developer room. It would be great to work together on a plan for a room – the deadline is short 12th October – please chime in on IRCchat if you have ideas and experience from previous events.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 35 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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