Fosdem 2026 Call for Participation

Coming off Liz‘s post a couple of weeks back, I am looking for thoughts on 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. We need to act this week… so please ping me via email or on the IRCChat if you have any thoughts.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #342 is available for your edification.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Is the epoch used by class Instant an implementation detail or not?
• use Test; plan $x should only support integers.
• Seq vs. List – Iterable, instead?

New Pull Requests

• Small improvements to the text in section “role” of typesystem.rakudoc by David Schultz.
• v6.e – Attributes with where clause must have initializers by ab5tract.

Core Developments

• 6.e – Fix overly permissive lookup into CALLER by ab5tract.
• RakuAST – Fix indirect methods with feed operators by ab5tract.

Questions About Raku

• How to extract specific fields from systemctl output for a custom report by jubilatious1.

Comments About Raku

• Raku is good at this kind of a thing, too, without 3rd-party modules by iv.
• DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025 by Olaf Anders.
• only a computer geek would think that this is OK by Steve Roe.
• That’s a nice improvement, to be sure! by ktsrauser.
• I whipped up this in raku by Steve Roe.
• you can define a recursive regex rule by Steve Roe.

Updated Raku Modules

• Terminal::Capabilities by japhb
• App::samaki by Brian Duggan
• Sparky, Sparky-Job-Api by Alexey Melezhik
• Data::Importers, Data::Translators, Data::TypeSystem by Anton Antonov

Winding down

A relatively quiet week this week … still ab5tract and others are chunking away in core, a nice crop of updates to modules and a couple of issues fixed on the https://raku.org site (404, redirects).

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 37 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

~librasteve (job sharing)

If you like what I’m doing, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal!