German Perl/Raku Workshop

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

I look forward to seeing the videos and presentations, meantime here is the list to whet your appetite.

Forthcoming Perl & Raku Conference in Greenville, SC

Don’t Miss the Perl and Raku Conference 2026 in Greenville, SC
SAVE THE DATES! Friday through Sunday, June 26-28

Registration is open: https://tprc.us/tprc-2026-gsp

Anton Antonov’s Corner

Anton has given us much to ponder this week.

Pi Day 2026: Formulas, Series, and Plots for π

• Happy Pi Day! Today (3/14) we celebrate the most famous mathematical constant: π ≈ 3.141592653589793…
• π is irrational and transcendental, appears in circles, waves, probability, physics, and even random walks.
• Raku (with its built-in π constant, excellent rational support, lazy lists, and unicode operators) makes experimenting with π relatively easy and enjoyable.
• In this blog post (notebook) we explore a selection of formulas and algorithms.

Jupyter::Chatbook Cheatsheet

• Quick reference for the Raku package “Jupyter::Chatbook”.

Spinning Raccoons

my first association was a sensor detecting spinning of raccoons (to see if they’re happy)

Anton Oks’ Corner

Dear Rakudo community… there are now some pre-build Rakudo-Star packages and also a “relocatable” tar archive available at https://github.com/AntonOks/rakudo-star-pkg/releases.

Could you please try them out and share your feedback, if possible via “issues” in that respective GitHub repo?!?

Please note…. this repo is “temporary available”. Do not link it in other tools or even documentations as of now. It may disappear later, and the binary packages may be made available on https://github.com/rakudo/star after some (YOUR 😉 ) tests!

Weekly Challenge

Weekly Challenge #365 is available for your amusement.

Questions About Raku

• Why doesn’t this look-behind assertion with a predefined regular expression work as expected? by sid_com

Comments About Raku

• Suggest to Raku to that list by Steve Roe
• I have been playing with DSLs a little by Steve Roe

Meantime On The Socials

• Gleich geht das Programm los by Arthur Dent
• say ^<1 fuckton> .in(‘buttloads’); by Steve Roe

Updated Raku Modules

• Jupyter::Chatbook, Math::NumberTheory by Anton Antonov
• Term::TablePrint, Term::Choose by Matthäus Kiem
• Chronic by Jonathan Stowe
• zef by Nick Logan
• Air, Air::Plugin::Asciinema by Steve Roe
• App::samaki, Log::Async, Duckie, Geo::Polyline by Brian Duggan

Winding down

Editorial Opinion

One thing I love about Raku is the opportunity to engage with and learn from people from all over the world who are far smarter than me. Usually my education is in the form of coding and software development techniques. However, this week I learned about Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance .

As editor of this weekly, my instincts are torn between a Raku community that is 100% apolitical and a Raku where we can try to nudge the world to a better place by sharing our thoughts and reactions to wider events (specifically whether I should continue with lizmat’s themes here from the last few years, or drop them).

So I sat and thought for a while (sometimes I sits, sometimes I sits and thinks). I hovered over the Camelia logo on https://raku.org:

Hi, my name is Camelia. I’m the spokesbug for the Raku Programming Language. Raku has been developed by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic open source volunteers, and continues to be developed. You can help too. The only requirement is that you know how to be nice to all kinds of people (and butterflies).

And I was sad that Camelia’s advice didn’t seem to be working. But then I thought: you know, maybe Camelia would be as worried as I am about what the world is coming to. And so I did a full 360º.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 59 of hopefully only 209.

~librasteve