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2026.03 Lamentable

FOSDEM Community Dinner Information

TPRF sponsor the FOSDEM Perl and Raku community dinner which is is traditionally held on the Saturday evening. All food is included and guests are free to purchase their own drinks. [Ed: guess that’s what they mean by free as in beer?]

31st January 2026 19:30

Please register to attend:

https://perlfoundation.org/fosdem/community-dinner.html

Richard’s Corner

https://coderlegion.com/9768/rakudoc-more-than-just-a-documentation-markup

Richard Hainsworth (aka finanalyst) shares the first part of a series on the markup language Rakudoc (v2). Find out how it came about, why its design allows for a wide use, and how a reader can easily (for some definitions of ‘easily’?) experiment with RakuDoc in a browser using a docker image.

Jnthn’s Corner

Jonathan Worthington’s poignant song, inspired by the Russian war in Ukraine

https://neexistujeme.bandcamp.com/track/lament-of-the-bombed-out-feat-carolina-padr-n

Liz’s Corner

The results are in for the first four Problem Solving issues to be put to the RSC guillotine.

https://dev.to/lizmat/the-first-four-2b5p

The first meeting was had on the suggested time and date: 17 January 2026 at 19:00 UTC. Apart from 4 Raku Steering Council members, up to 8 other people attended: thank you for your attendance and your feedback!

In the end, 4 issues were discussed within the allotted time (1 hour) and one other was explicitly moved to a next meeting at the request of the issuer.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #357 is available for your enjoyment.

Raku Tips ‘n Tricks

This week, rcmlz, a regular on the IRCchat #raku channel, shared their work on providing the Raku kernel in a Jupyter Binder image (see the raku-binder-env github repo for details).

Click this => Jupyter::Chatbook Examples (go on, try it!)

Get this =>

It is lovely to play with Raku in a Jupyter Notebook setup and the Jupyter::Chatbook magics have a lot of LLM toys built in if you like that sort of thing.

Your contribution is welcome, please make a gist and share via the raku channel IRC or Discord.

Core Developments

  • Improvements:

    • Remove meaningless command-line argument “parsetrace” [cff551c8]
    • Add infix + – / * candidates for mixed int / num (#6040) [1b46f713]
    • Make -MSIL cleaner by excluding any core BBs [c7e41bd8]
    • Test .from-posix versus .from-posix-nanos (#6035) [f95aefad]
    • add profiling opts (from NQP) [6f087b06]

  • Fixes:

    • Fix roast test failure caused by 1b46f7135b7776e779 [fbb967b3]
    • Rename Test’s exit-ok to exits-ok (#6061) [24e6ff34]
    • MoarVM alignment fix for GCC 15.1/OpenSuse Leap 16 [fb0142fe]
    • Fix an inverted logic scenerio for $type_env [3babcc69]

  • RakuAST:

    • fixup handling of =numtable [fcc0e185]
    • allow for =table3 and friends in podification [f3ada07f]

Extracted from the latest Draft Changelog.

Comments About Raku

Updated Raku Modules

Winding down

Lots of corners to share this week – thanks to all for your great contributions.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 51 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

~librasteve

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