The following people contributed to this release:

Will Coleda, Elizabeth Mattijsen, librasteve, David Simon Schultz, Eric Forste, Justin DeVuyst, Patrick Böker, Coleman McFarland, Daniel Green, Márton Polgár, 2colours, 4zv4l

Forthcoming German Perl/Raku Workshop

28th German Perl/Raku Workshop (16th-18th March 2026 in Berlin)

Call for Talks is open: https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/talks

Liz’s Corner

Elizabeth Mattijsen (lizmat) series has now expanded to 13 episodes on WHY RAKU GETS SHOUTY SOMETIMES:

• Cases of UPPER
• … 11 more parts …
• Definitely How What Where, Who?

Anton’s Corner

Jubilatious1’s Corner

From Unix Stackexchange:

~$ raku -MText::CSV -e 'csv(in => csv(in => $IN, sep => "|"), out => $OUT);'

Raku’s Text::CSV module is called at the command line, shows two nested csv(in => $IN, out => $OUT) calls.

Sample Input:
1|a,b|4
1|c,d|4
1|e,f|4
1|g,h|4
1|i,j|4
Sample Output:
1,"a,b",4
1,"c,d",4
1,"e,f",4
1,"g,h",4
1,"i,j",4

Weekly Challenge

Weekly Challenge #363 is available for your merriment.

Raku Tips ‘n Tricks

For some time, the lazy coder in me has been tempted to pick some of lizmat’s nice SHOUTY things for this section. Today my base urges have won. Here are two examples:

First, this one is just a lovely small trick I already use:

say now - BEGIN now

Second, here is a new one on me:

=begin pod
This is documentation
=end pod

CHECK {
  use Pod::To::Text;
  say pod2text($=pod);
}

Which produces:

This is documentation

According to Liz’s article :

The CHECK phaser gets executed once the entire source code has been compiled into an AST. It comes both in Block and thunk flavours.

In the next language level of Raku, this will allow you to actually modify the AST before it is being turned into bytecode. But we’re not there yet.

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

Questions About Raku

• In Raku, how to import a module during runtime? by Jim Bollinger
• In Raku, how to assign a value but only if the value is defined? by Jim Bollinger

Comments about Raku

• What interesting (and smaller) conferences are there in 2026? by hwj
• Can Raku do something like this? by fuzztester
• Throwing in Rowling in there is beautiful by m0j0m0j

New Raku Modules

• Math::SalvoCombatModeling, MermaidJS::Grammar by Anton Antonov

Updated Raku Modules

• Crypt::Argon2 by Adrian Kreher
• String::Utils, IRC::Log by Elizabeth Mattijsen
• GnomeTools by Marcel Timmerman
• Math::NumberTheory by Anton Antonov
• Physics::Constants, Physics::Measure, App::Crag, Physics::Error, FatRatStr, Physics::Navigation, Physics::Unit, Air by Steve Roe
• Math::Zeckendorf by Will Coleda

Winding down

Hats’ off to the core team for the new release. Really appreciate your stalwart efforts.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 57 of hopefully only 209.

~librasteve