2022.08 Grammarly co-op

Daniel Sockwell took Mike Clark’s ideas a bit further and wrote an extensive blog post with further thoughts on cooperative grammars, in which they show the use of different grammars to parse…

raku Physics::Unit vs. Python Pint

[Health warning – the following is written by the author of raku Physics::Unit & Physics::Measure – so it is an opinion piece with a strong pro-raku Physics::Measure bias…] Th…

2022.07 Unsigned Released

Justin DeVuyst has released the 2022.02 version of the Rakudo Compiler. Some of the more interesting additions: Native unsigned integers have become first class citizens on all levels (up to 184467…

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Fuzzy commands

Reading can make one learned. Today I had a peak into lizmat´s new module shorten-sub-commands and learned about Parameter.constraint_list. We need this method to introspect a routines literal para…

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2022.06 BASICly

Matthew “Stephen” Stuckwisch has started playing around with the RakuAST branch of Rakudo, and has written a proof of concept module of a BASIC slang and reported about that on /r/rakul…

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2022.05 foo = 42

Ralph Mellor published a Request For Comments allowing for a new syntax to define constants in the Raku Programming Language. And quite some discussion followed, and some clarifications. In any cas…

2022.04 Unsigned Merge

This week’s good news is that the about 2 months of work of Stefan Seifert to properly support native unsigned integers, was merged. This work, and Daniel Green’s work on using the mima…

2022.03 RakuCon How?

Andrew Shitov is asking for the community’s opinion on whether or not to have an in-person Raku Conference in Riga in 2022 in The Raku Conference Update. Cancelling an in-person event now, me…

Fooled by complexity

And that fool would be me. After realising that HyperSeq is lazy, I managed to simplify the code in my last post. sub needle(int \b) { sub is-pentagon($c is raw) { (1+sqrt(1+24*$c))%%6 } sub P($n i…

Manual hypering

Nemokosch was unhappy with the performance of a literal translation from Python. So he asked for advice in #raku-beginner. (The logger is missing messages. Authorities have been informed.) This lea…

2022.01/02 Perching?

Inspired by the mention of increased number of visitors to the 2021 Raku Advent Calendar (up 180% from 2020), and an article about the cycle of adoption of technology, Steve Roe created a Pull Requ…

2021.52 JDV Released

Justin DeVuyst has announced the 2021.12 Rakudo Compiler Release, their first release and hopefully the first of many to come! Claudio Ramirez quickly provided Linux packages for this release. And …

Day 25 – Future-proofing the Raku Programming Language

Around this time last year, Jonathan Worthington was writing their Advent Post called Reminiscence, refinement, revolution. Today, yours truly finds themselves writing a similar blog…

Day 24 – Packaging and unpackaging real good

After all Rakuing along all Christmas, Santa realizes it’s a pretty good idea to keep things packed and ready to ship whenever it’s needed. So it looks at containers. Not the containers…

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