Steve Roe asked the question “Can Raku replace PHP?” in a blog post that was somehow missed by yours truly last week. It shows that their new Cro::WebApp::Evaluate module allows one to use <?raku ... ?> in the same way that PHP allows <?php ... ?> code to be executed as part of rendering a template.
Anton’s Corner
Anton Antonov created a nice video introduction to Retrieval Augment Generation for their new LLM::RetrievalAugmentedGeneration module (/r/rakulang comments). And gave a presentation about Robust LLM Pipelines for the South Florida Data Science Study Group (/r/rakulang, Wolfram Community comments).
Weeklies
Weekly Challenge #288 is available for your perusal.
New Problem Solving Issues
New Pull Requests
Core Developments
- Nick Logan fixed an issue with NaN and floating point infinity on Windows.
- John Haltiwanger fixed a smart-matching optimizer issue.
- Timo Paulssen continued working on getting Rakudo into the Debian release process again.
In RakuAST developments this week:
- Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed some safe RakuDoc issues.
Meanwhile on Mastodon
- Wish me luck! by Timo Paulssen.
Comments about Raku
- Top tier by theangrypicbanana.
- With bits of Raku by theangrypicbanana.
- Signatures for multiple dispatch by lngns.
- A pretty good Lisp impression by Steve Roe.
New Raku Modules
- LLM::RetrievalAugmentedGeneration “Package for doing LLM Retrieval Augment Generation (RAG)” by Anton Antonov.
- MacOS::NativeLib “Make native libs reachable on MacOS” by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
Updated Raku Modules
- Math::Nearest, Math::DistanceFunctions::Native, Graph by Anton Antonov.
- SSH::LibSSH::Tunnel by Humberto Massa.
- Crypt::RC4, PDF::Content by David Warring.
- zef by Nick Logan.
- GD::Raw, Image::Resize, PrettyDump by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
Winding down
A short week on account of the last Weekly having been published on Tuesday. Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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