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El Che’s Corner

Fedora 44 is out (rakudo-pkg has Fedora 44 rpms) and also Ubuntu 26.04 debs 🙂

Awesome!

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov sheds some light on Latent Semantic Analysis:

Sparrow Corner

A Gemini comparison of using the Sparrow6 DSL vs. Python has some things to say – it concludes with the Verdict:

Choose Python if:

• You are building a standalone security agent or a library.
• You need to integrate with a custom internal system that only has a Python SDK.
• You need to perform heavy data transformation or multi-file cross-referencing.

Choose Sparrow6 if:

• You are performing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) audits.
• You want a declarative “policy-as-code” file that is easy for security teams (who may not be programmers) to read.
• You want to quickly verify the state of a system after a configuration management run (like Chef, Ansible, or Bash scripts).

Head over to Discord or search the #raku channel on the IRCLogs to see more like this.

Steve’s Corner

Steve Roe (for it is me) is trying to figure out Where to go next on the great Raku Journey?

Pick a Direction

Around the turn of the year, I made a resolution: to engage and attract 1000 more Raku coders. I believe that the racehorse to back is called DieSeL (thats a backcronym for DSL aka Domain Specific Languages aka Slangs).

• Is there a race? Well not yet, we have to create a race.
• Is it a horse? Best way to find out is to try and ride it!
• Is it a winner? Only way to find out is to put a bet on it. (I bet in the currency of tuits btw)

Picking a direction is the hardest thing.

The Problem part of the Problem

OK, so the challenge is:

Convince a bunch of hard-nosed and busy developers that Raku is a new, improved way to make a DSL.

I hope that you think that this is a worthwhile goal – please comment (i.e. in the Reddit post) if you have feedback or would like to help (for my tuits will only go so far).

TPRC Submit your Talk

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

Weekly Challenge

Weekly Challenge #372 is available for your enrichment.

Raku Tips ‘n Tricks

From time to time you may notice a new Raku localization module like L10N::NL. See https://raku.land/?page=2&q=L10N for a full list.

Did you also know, that each one of these can have a local language command to launch Raku?

$ dutku -e 'zeg "foo"'
foo
$ kaas -e 'zeg "foo"'
foo
$ freku -e 'dis "foo"'
foo
$ brie -e 'dis "foo"'
foo

Can you spot the common theme? Maybe you would like to add a new language localization – it’s pretty easy and there’s plenty of help on offer?

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

Comments About Raku

• Neither do I buy into Raku’s brave use of all possible Unicode symbols by larodi

Meanwhile on the Socials

• Just noticed that Fedora has #RakuLang 2026.03 packaged by Jonathan Stowe
• I only use #RakuLang for that nowadays… The regex+grammars engine is wonderful by Massa Humberto
• What’s left for #RakuAST to go live? by Profoundly Nerdy

New Doc & Web Pull Requests

• Arity Note Required Named Arguments by Steve Roe

New Modules

• Actionable by Steve Roe
• X::Intl by Matthew Stuckwisch
• Noise::Simplex::Native by Matt Doughty
• ML::LatentSemanticAnalyzer by Anton Antonov

Updated Modules

• DSL::Translators, Math::SparseMatrix, ML::SparseMatrixRecommender, Chatnik, Math::SparseMatrix::Native, ML::NLPTemplateEngine, DSL::English::LatentSemanticAnalysisWorkflows by Anton Antonov
• Vips::Native, Monad, LLM::Classifiers::Emotions, Template::Jinja2, ComfyUI::API, Selkie, LLM::Data::Pipeline, LLM::Chat, Notcurses::Native, LLM::Data::ContentTag, LLM::Character, OpenRouter::API, JSONL, Tokenizers, Roaring::Tags, CRoaring, HuggingFace::API, LLM::Data::Inference, MCP::Server by Matt Doughty
• Intl::LanguageTag, Intl::LanguageTaggish, Timezones::ZoneInfo by Matthew Stuckwisch
• App::samaki by Brian Duggan
• MongoDB::Fast by Zer0-Tolerance
• Physics::Error, Hilite, Air::Plugin::Hilite, FatRatStr by Steve Roe
• HTTP::Tinyish by Skaji

Winding down

It’s great to see Raku slowly climbing into the mainstream *nix distributions.

Star Wars Day? May the 4th be with you!

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 66 of hopefully only 209.

~librasteve