Scott Sotka has published a nice blog post about how they started using Raku in production, and what they learned to make that all happen: Learnings in Raku and Pg Concurrency. Nice to see that things just work, even asynchronously. And if they don’t, that there are friendly people helping you to fix the issue you had!

Conference Videos

Only one Raku video of the conference in Las Vegas has been uploaded so far:

• Red Migrations by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.

Rakudo Compiler Release

Justin DeVuyst (yet again, mucho kudos!) has produced the sixth Rakudo compiler release of 2024: 2024.06, a mostly bug-fixing and error report improvements release. Binary packages will become available shortly, as well as updates to Rakudo Star, if they are not already.

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov has created another video presentation: this time with examples of graph creation and visualization: “Graph demo in Raku (teaser)” (/r/rakulang comments).

Dr. Raku’s Corner

Dr Raku‘s beginner tutorial videos of the past week:

• For Loop & Delete Files In Directory
• Next If Loop Through Letter Number Ranges

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #276 is available for your perusal.

New Problem Solving Issues

• Hash slices should have an option to return a hash

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• Can Raku do this? by Profoundly Nerdy.
• With a little raku background by Paul Buetow.

Meanwhile still on Twitter 𝕏

• A new module! by Scott Sotka.

Meanwhile on the mailing list

• Re: PostgreSQL: Raku as a “trusted” language? by Darren Duncan.

Questions about Raku

• Zef cant find modules by raka_boy.

Comments

• Excellent CLI and Jupyter notebook tools by Steve Roe.
• Hiding away the powertools by Steve Roe.
• A similar iterator by db48x.
• On undefinedness by lifthrasiir.
• On extending the Range class by Steve Roe.
• On localization by Ralph Mellor.
• Got nerdsniped badly by rebane2001.
• On partial types by Ralph Mellor.
• On CATCH blocks by Ralph Mellor.
• What it’s called nowadays by Olivier Mengué.

New Raku Modules

• SeqSplitter “A better solution for .toggle” by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Duckie “Raku bindings and wrapper for DuckDB” by Brian Duggan.
• ValueClass “A way to create immutable value objects” by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Method::Protected “Add is protected trait to methods” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Updated Raku Modules

• Graph, Data::TypeSystem, JavaScript::D3 by Anton Antonov.
• Acme::Text::UpsideDown, Adverb::Eject, Array::Circular, Array::Sorted::Map, Array::Sorted::Util, Attribute::Predicate, Cache::Async, eigenstates, Fasta, FINALIZER, Game::Covid19, Hash::int, Hash::LRU, Hash::Restricted, Hash::str, Hash-with, Method::Also, Migration::RTtoGithub, NYI, ObjectCache, ReadWriteLock, roundrobin-slip, Set::Equality, Test::Assertion, Today, uniprop, Unix::errno, WriteOnceHash, ake, ValueType, ValueList, Tuple, ValueTypeCache by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• Text::Utils by Tom Browder.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• PDF by David Warring.
• App::Crag by Steve Roe.

Winding down

An unexpected new blogger, a lot of maintenance work and some cool new modules! Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work!

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