Leaky Rakudo

Yesterday the discord-bridge-bot refused to perform its 2nd job: EVAL All The Things! The EVALing is done via shell-out and requires a fair bit of RAM (Rakudo is equally slim then Santa). After abo…

raku at Monterey Docks (part II)

Title: Building on fabled Cannery Row, Monterey, California – Wikimedia Commons Recap In Part I of this post, I started on my macOS tool chain rebuild, I want this to work for all my lan…

2021.46 Cro Once Again

The Cro Development team proudly announced version 0.8.7 of Cro, the set of Raku libraries for building reactive distributed systems, lovingly crafted to take advantage of all Raku has to offer. Si…

2021.45 Two Commas

With only being a few hours late to make it to last week’s Rakudo Weekly News, Oleksandr Kyriukhin was nonetheless glad to be able to announce another release of the Comma IDE for subscribers…

2021.44 1000+ Rakoons

This week the Raku Community on Reddit makes it to main article on the Rakudo Weekly News. In the roughly two years since the rename, the number of subscribers made it to a 1000! Which does not rea…

2021.43 Thank You

Oleksandr Kyriukhin has released the 2021.10 version of the Rakudo Compiler, which includes all of the work of the new MoarVM dispatch mechanism. This is the culmination of more than 1.5 year work …

2021.42 Learning With

Daniel Sockwell was inspired by a blog post a few weeks ago about a bouncing balls demo. The result is a new framework for learning Raku, but this time with some nice graphics: Learn Raku With: HTM…

2021.41 Different Patterns

Daniel Sockwell investigated the powers of smart matching in the Raku® Programming Language in two blog posts Let’s try some pattern matching (/r/rakulang comments) and Further thoughts on Ra…

2021.40 It’s here!

With a MoarVM, NQP and Rakudo™ merge (at 922 commits and 335 files changed by 16 contributors), the work on the new-disp branch that started about 18 months ago, was finally made mainstream. Specia…

LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks!

The LAMP web development stack doesn’t mean anything anymore. It’s time to come up with a better name.

2021.39 Programming Haku

Wim Vanderbauwhede introduces Haku, a Japanese programming language. It shows a very interesting example of how you can use grammars of the Raku Programming Language to create your own programming …

5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Raku - LinuxLinks

Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019.

2021.36 Clean Disp

The Rakudo Core Developer team (more specifically Jonathan Worthington, Stefan Seifert, Daniel Green, Jan-Olof Hendig, Nicholas Clark and Oleksandr Kyriukhin) have reached a milestone on the new-di…

2021.35 Superseding

Steve Roe opened an issue in the raku.land repository: My modules are Duplicates. It describes the tricky issue the Raku ecosystem is facing in light of the migration of modules between different &…

2021.34 Stabler

Oleksandr Kyriukhin has done it again: creating the 2021.08 Rakudo Compiler Release. Shortly thereafter, Claudio Ramirez created the associated Linux packages. And JJ Merelo created the associated …

2021.33 Cucumbering

Some weeks just have sad news: And the saddest part about this, is that it wasn’t until this week to become known that Robert Lemmen has died in June 2020 already. Robert Lemmen mostly worked…

Inequality

As stated before, I like to read code I didn’t write myself. Flavio had trouble with triples. One line stood out to me. take @triple if $N == @triple.any; This looks like a set-operation to m…

2021.32 FirstCon Done

The first Raku Conference is over: if you like the full experience, you can check out the video streams of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. It was great to see such an event dedicated to the Raku Programming L…

They returned an empty package

I don’t like to solve maths-puzzles. I do like to read other folks solutions thought. You never know where to spot a new idiom. A good way to find them is to look for code that feels unusual.…