Which programming language should you learn? Tim Nelson has the answer!
Raku is the Language Best Suited to be your Forever Language
Tim Nelson makes the case for using the Raku Programming Language in a blog post titled “Raku: Your Forever Language“. And yours truly couldn’t agree more!
TPRC 2026 Videos
The videos of TPRC 2026 have become available. These are the Raku ones:
- How to Make a Cool URI Module in Raku by Matthew Stuckwisch.
- Raku Next Steps: Hyperbolic by Bruce Gray.
- Text-Wrangling with Raku One-Liners by William Michels.
Anton’s Corner
Anton Antonov wrote a blog post about their new WWW::XAI model in: Raku API access to XAI. With some nice examples, and one of them actually made it as the title image this week!
Alexey’s Corner
Alexey has been busy with a new project, called “[D]ead [S]imple CI – All batteries included self hosted PAAS for developers“, and has written a few blog posts about it:
Weeklies
Weekly Challenge #385 is available for your perusal.
New Problem Solving Issues
New Pull Requests
- Further improvements to GDB Python Plugin, including the moar “rrdb”
- Make coercions check subset refinements on every value
- RakuAST: sink when/default bodies whose succeed payload is unused
- RakuAST: skip the runtime type check on the implicit method invocant
- RakuAST: stop thunking the right side of test assignments
- RakuAST: extend lexical lowering to anonymous variables and BEGIN-compiled routines
- RakuAST: worry about unknown
useadverbs in 6.e+
Core Developments
- Daniel Green updated the
mimallocnative library on MoarVM, which is expected to result in lower memory requirements for your running Raku programs. - Nick Logan created a whole lot of optimizations in the optimize stage of RakuAST and various other fixes inspired by failures seen in the ecosystem.
- Elizabeth Mattijsen implemented support for
=begin/end ignorein RakuDoc (which allows for conditionally disabling parts of your RakuDoc) and improved the error reporting on invalid RakuDoc.
Meanwhile on Mastodon
- Updated the PR by vavakado.
Questions about Raku
- Does anyone know anything about LLM contribution policy? by alephoto85.
- Building a Raku-native programming language by therealpogeon.
- Fez upload fails, why? by grizzlysmit.
- Is there any news about macros? by reddit_clone.
Comments about Raku
- Cro – elegant reactive services by giancarlostoro.
- The true power of regular expressions by uneven9434.
New Raku Modules
- WWW::OpenRouter “WWW::OpenRouter provides access to the OpenRouter playground” by Anton Antonov.
- Video::Prompt::Brief “Model, validate, and render structured video generation briefs” by FosterMartyn735.
- Datastar::SDK “A data-oriented Datastar SDK for Raku” by E. Alvarez.
- Pinterest::URL::Normalizer “Parse, classify, and normalize Pinterest URLs without network requests” by jiankn.
Updated Raku Modules
The Raku Land Statistics page shows that we already have exceeded the number of updates to modules this year (14.4% from total) from last year (14.1%).
- LLM::Data::Pipeline, Selkie, Notcurses::Native by Matt Doughty.
- Implementation::Loader by Tim Nelson.
- Rakuast::RakuDoc::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
- LLM::Functions, WWW::OpenAI, Jupyter::Chatbook, DSL::Entity::Geographics, DSL::Entity::Foods, DSL::Entity::Jobs, WWW::XAI, Graph by Anton Antonov.
- YAMLStar by Ingy döt Net.
- Node::Ethereum::KZG, Ethelia by Konstantin Narkhov.
- if, Locale::Dates, DateTime::strftime, Email::Simple by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
- Geo::Valhalla by Brian Duggan.
- OpenSSL by Timo Paulssen.
- Template::HAML, Blogin by Greg Donald.
- Blin by Will Coleda.
Winding down
Just one week and a nice crop of blog posts, videos, modules and core developments.
Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 80 of hopefully only 209.
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