Fosdem 2026 Devroom Submission

Coming off Liz‘s post a couple of weeks back, we have made a joint submission with the Perl folks via TPRF to the FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation. Kudos to all those who suggested talks. Hopefully, if the devroom is allocated, we can then run a more leisurely call for papers among the Raku community. Salve J. Nielsen is currently sharing ideas for Tchotchke over on IRC.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #343 is available for your edification.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Reduce Discord Tumbleweed & Make IRC Bridge More Consistent

New Docs Pull Requests

• add method .multi-invocant to class Parameter by Eric Forste
• overhaul double semicolon (;;) for signature precedence by David Schultze
• change wording for andthen and notandthen by David Schultze
• Update about.rakudoc by Orir
• adding C<> wrappers for DateTime, julian-date, modified-julian-date by Eric Forste
• un-stub MONKEY-SEE-NO-EVIL and MONKEY-TYPING & add example (駱) to show that “word characters” also comprise syllabic characters & correct description of punct & add note how newline after Heredoc can be removed via chomp & add explanations for same and at … by David Schultze (phew!)
• in 2025.08, lizmat fixed the newly documented misbehavior of julian-date by Eric Forste

Core Developments

• Bump rapidhash to v3 by MasterDuke
• Bump libtommath to 1.3.0 by MasterDuke
• v6.e – Attributes with where clause must have initializers by ab5tract
• RakuAST – Fix indirect methods with feed operators by ab5tract
• RakuAST – Remove special handling of ‘$]’ by ab5tract
• RakuAST – Address some issues with generics by ab5tract
• Remove some historical information from the readme by Will Coleda

Meantime on BlueSky

• The match of a regex is … Nice by David Schultze
• Do … languages with a large core … have a security advantage by David Schultze

Questions About Raku

• embedded subs inside subs by ToddAndMargo
• unlink question by ToddAndMargo et al
• Do Raku modules work under arm64 MacOS? by Kenneth Woolcott
• way to extract a Windows exe file version from Linux by ToddAndMargo
• ROUTINE question by ToddAndMargo
• find all files in multiple directories whose names start with the same string by Jubilatious1

Comments About Raku

• an open ended collection of cooperating slangs by Ralph Mellor
• Raku is well-crafted, architected for completeness and flexibility by photo-nerd-3141
• defining postfix operators in Raku’s REPL by vlogize
• Understanding readonly Array Attributes by vlogize
• to max out the silliness, you could implement this as a Raku grammar by Steve Roe
• contribute to the port of Raku into esperanto by psychoslave
• Sparrow scenarios are dead simple, easy to read and “look like” declarative DSL by Alexy Melezhik

New Raku Modules

• Bencode by zef:4zv4l
• ML::SparseMatrixRecommender, by Anton Antonov
• PB-Lottery by Tom Browder

Updated Raku Modules

• Terminal::Capabilities, Terminal::LineEditor by Geoffrey Broadwell
• LLM::RetrievalAugmentedGeneration, DSL::English::RecommenderWorkflows, Math::SparseMatrix::Native, ML::NLPTemplateEngine, Math::DistanceFunctions, Math::SparseMatrix, LLM::Functions, DSL::Examples by Anton Antonov
• Definitely by Steve Roe
• App::samaki by Brian Duggan
• Text::Utils by Tom Browder
• Sparky, Sparrowdo by Alexey Melezhik
• Gnome::Gio by Marcel Timmerman

Winding down

My fingers are tired from entering all the PRs on the doc.raku.org content – many thanks to David Schultze for helping us to improve (can’t you make a script for that – ed?).

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 38 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!