Andrew Shitov has been very active the past week. First a blog post about Raku++ 3.14 (a brief overview of the most interesting parts), followed by part 1 of Raku – A Language That Counts To Infinity, the latter with built-in editable and runnable examples in the browser! The latter blog post is also available on dev.to but without interactive examples.

Moneymoor

Matt Doughty introduced a self-contained application based on the Raku Programming Language called Moneymoor – envelope-style Budgeting on TUI. A real-life help for people on a budget, and with no data leaving your computer!

Raptor

Someone identifying as xyzzyapps announced a new vibe-coded programming language called Raptor, a Perl5 subset of Raku (or as the author later commented: “Raptor is like Perl4 + closures”).

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey has created a project for a minimalistic Self Hosted Git Server.

Foundation News

If you want to be kept directly up-to-date on developments of The Raku Foundation, please make sure you’re registered: no big registration, just your name and email address (and nick if you want to provide that).

Meanwhile, it’s now also possible to donate to The Raku Foundation by credit card (by selecting Mollie, entering the amount you would like to donate, and then “Card”). Please look at the 2026 Policy Plan if you like to know what your donation will be spent on!

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #387 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Make the 6.e sprintf produce C compatible output
• RakuAST: generate the POPULATE method from the build plan
• Cache interpolated regex compilations by pattern source
• Let a boxed value reach a native-only multi candidate by unboxing
• RakuAST: name stub packages without their container
• Share the revision gate mixin across gated routines

Core Developments

• Nick Logan has been very busy indeed the past week:
  • Port a Grammar sanity check to 6.e.
  • Fix several issues with merged output supplies in Proc::Async.
  • Several improvements in error handling and reporting.
  • Make loop controls work in hyper and race.
  • Fixed several problems with the use of generic types.
  • Fixed several problem with native types used in attribute declaration, parameter and return types.
  • And many fixes, improvements and optimizations in RakuAST.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen marked many internal classes as actual implementation details.

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Demo server to play with by Alexey.
• Try Raku without installing anything by Moray.

Comments about Raku

• Helped by Larry Wall by Dreamreal.
• No YAML craziness by Alexey.
• Works for me by ReddyKiloWit.

New Raku Modules

• App::Moneymoor “YNAB-style envelope budgeting: a derivation engine” by Matt Doughty.
• JobQueue “Dependency-aware job queues: lanes, priorities, dedup, cancellation and a cross-queue DAG” by Matt Doughty.
• App::Ariza “Bundler and distribution tool for Raku terminal apps” by Matt Doughty.
• MacOS::AudioDevices “NativeCall wrapper around macOS CoreAudio for listing and switching audio devices” by Holli Holzer.
• Terminal::MultiProgress “Show progress of multiple concurrent tasks in the terminal” by Brian Duggan.

Updated Raku Modules

• MCP::Server, MCP::Client, LLM::Data::Pipeline, Vips::Native, LLM::Agent, ComfyUI::API, HuggingFace::API, LLM::Agent, Selkie, LLM::Classifiers::Emotions, Notcurses::Native, ONNX::Native by Matt Doughty.
• MagickWand by Konstantin Narkhov.
• CodeUnit, REPL by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Doc::TypeGraph by Richard Hainsworth.
• Mi6::Helper by Tom Browder.
• Net::IP::Parse by Brad Clawsie.
• Draku, Terminal::UI by Brian Duggan.
• Syndicate by Sasha Abbott.
• Num::HexFloat by Dan Kogai.

Winding down

With just a day’s delay, yet another week with plenty of goodies: modules, apps, blogs, and better donation possibilities.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 82 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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