Steve Roe continued the introduction of The hArc Stack last week with a simple “shallow” dive to show how all the HARC components interact in: HARC Stack Shallow Dive (/r/rakulang comments).

Fernando’s Corner

Fernando Correa de Oliveira has another example of building an interactive web-site. In this case a simple message board with all the batteries included: Building Raku Codeboard: A Simple Full-Stack App with Red, Cromponent, and HTMX.

Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik has started adding answers to StackOverflow questions, using the Raku Programming Language with Sparrow, creating a collection of Raku/Sparrow recipes.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #316 is available for your perusal.

Core Developments

• Jimmy Zhuo fixed a rooting issue on MoarVM.
• Daniel Green provided a micro-optimization in relatively hot regex code.
• Elizabeth Mattijsen made dd detect being called in a RakuAST CHECK phaser to show the RakuAST tree of the entire program.

In RakuAST developments this week:

With about 100 RakuAST commits in the past 8 days, one can argue that Stefan Seifert has been very busy again! Daniel Green fixed a number of error messages, and Elizabeth Mattijsen fixed a number of issues related to declarator docs.

The number of passing test-files with the new Raku grammar are now 154/166 (make test +8) and 1349/1352 (make spectest +18).

Meanwhile on Mastodon

• DataFrame manipulation by Random Geek.

Questions about Raku

• Use gather / take with race by Pawel Pabian bbkr.

Comments about Raku

• That IPv6 article! by Matthew Stuckwisch.
• On dynamic variables by Ralph Mellor.
• As obscure by piokoch.
• A lot less pinky wiggling by Steve Roe.
• Who’s the Ancient? by eesmith.

Updated Raku Modules

• Humming-Bird by Rawley Fowler.
• PDF by David Warring.
• Sparrow6, Sparrowdo, Sparky by Alexey Melezhik.
• ML::FindTextualAnswer, ML::NLPTemplateEngine, Math::NumberTheory by Anton Antonov.
• DateTime::US, Date::Utils by Tom Browder.
• Air, Air::Play by Steve Roe.
• IUP by 0rir.
• GtkLayerShell by Siavash Askari Nasr.
• Elucid8::Build by Richard Hainsworth.
• Cromponent by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.

Winding down

Yours truly will be less online for most of the month of April, enjoying some deeply needed rest and recreation. This means that most likely there will not be a Rakudo Weekly News next week.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 11 of hopefully only 209.

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