The Raku Foundation

Anyone with an active interest in the success of Raku is welcome to Register their interest in membership of The Raku Foundation community – details of participation are being thrashed out by the newly appointed Executive Board and will be communicated in due course. [If you are reading the weekly, then this means you. -Ed.]

Foundations can only exist by your support!

Some do this by their work on the development of the Raku Programming Language or the development of the Raku Ecosystem, or by using the Raku Programming Language for their projects. Another way to support the Raku Programming Language is to support the Raku Foundation financially: keeping the Raku infrastructure up and running also requires financial resources! Click here to donate.

Damian’s Corner

Damian Conway proclaims:- TRF Lives! – a thoughtful piece (geddit?) by one of the progenitors of Raku that strikes a good balance with the perl heritage and the path forward.

Last month saw the official announcement of The Raku Foundation, including an invitation to every member of the global Raku community to register their interest in the organization and become members, with the right to vote on its leadership, policies, and activities. Once again, I would encourage everyone who loves Raku to do exactly that…

Tim’s Corner

Tim Nelson says OK, Qwiratry 0.0.4 is out 🙂 https://raku.land/zef:wayland/Qwiratry

A Raku architecture for declarative queries and flexible data walking, suitable for trees, tables, relational structures, logic-programming environments, and anything reasonably structured and traversable.

Greg’s Corner

Greg Donald on Shipping My First Raku App Page

I just released behave.dev into production. It’s the homepage for BDD::Behave, my behavior-driven testing framework for Raku. It’s the first Raku application I’ve ever pushed to production. I’ve been deploying web apps since 1996, so the moving parts of putting a process behind a reverse proxy on a Linux box are familiar territory. What I had to figure out this time was where the Raku-shaped pieces slot into that picture, and which of my usual configuration patterns transfered cleanly.

Weekly Challenge

Weekly Challenge #381 is available for your critique.

Comments about Raku

• This is a much needed thing for Raku's growth. by Matt Doughty
• …but you'd end up with Raku-level amounts of architecture acrobatics… by marijn
• …the only other language worth investigating […] is Raku. I avoided it for a long time… by klibertp
• …generate many strange languages for the past 3 years. From Raku… by klibertp
• …hArc is able to leverage Raku roles for code decomposition… by Steve Roe

New Modules

• Air::Plugin::Donate by Steve Roe
• JSON::RepositoryEvent, RepositoryEvent by Elizabeth Mattijsen
• Qwiratry–Location–HTTP by Tim Nelson

Updated Modules

• YAMLish by Leon Timmermans
• Implementation::Loader, Qwiratry by Tim Nelson
• OpenMPT::Bindings, FFmpegProgressBar by Sasha Abbott
• Air::Examples, Air by Steve Roe
• Rainbow by Patrick Böker
• BusyIndicator, Sys::HostAddr by Joelle Maslak
• YAMLScript by Ingy döt Net
• CodeUnit, JSON::Collector by Elizabeth Mattijsen
• Rakuast::RakuDoc::Render by Richard Hainsworth
• GD, Benchmark, IRC::TextColor by Various Artistes
• App::Mi6 by Skaji
• Geo::Basic by Brian Duggan
• Kubernetes by Rui Vieira

Winding down

Thanks to all those connected to the Raku project for registering your interest at https://raku.foundation – if you haven’t done that yet, please do and make your voice heard. Even nicer would be a small donation.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 76 of hopefully only 209.

~librasteve