Several people have pointed out that the yearly StackOverflow Developer Survey is online. Please take the survey and put in “Raku” when being questioned about programming languages (as it is not listed as a standard option yet), so that it may show up as an option next year. Thank you!

Steve’s Corner

This week Steve Roe is inviting people to think about a new version of the raku.org website, as Steve has volunteered to make a prototype of such a website. Any feedback will be thoroughly appreciated!

Anton’s Corner

Anton Antonov started a new series about LLM function calling, the first part tackling the weather (as an example of a question) using OpenAI.

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #324 is available for your perusal.

New Pull Requests

• Update Ubuntu images for CI
• Make DateTime.(modified-)julian-date take timezone into account
• RakuAST: Remove a lot of uses of IMPL-UNWRAP-LIST

Core Developments

• Geoffrey Broadwell cleaned up the Unicode UCD download logic in MoarVM.

In RakuAST developments this week:

• Elizabeth Mattijsen removed over-eager worries on the use of the ⚛+= , ⚛-= and ⚛−= operators.

Meanwhile on BlueSky

• Extremely WAT by Julia.
• Which is more understandable? by Hillel Wayne.

Comments about Raku

• On static checking by Ralph Mellor.
• Explicitly tagged for export by nagalaida.
• Gradual typing from the start by Steve Roe.
• Looks familiar by Moritz Lenz.
• Static, dynamic or both? by Ralph Mellor.
• Phase of the Moon by Steve Roe.

New Raku Modules

• AI::Gator “Ailigator: your AI Generic Assistant with a Tool-Oriented REPL” by Brian Duggan.

Updated Raku Modules

• Terminal::QuickCharts, BSON::Simple, Cro::CBOR, Terminal::Tests, Terminal::Capabilities by Geoffrey Broadwell.
• Log::Async by Brian Duggan.
• GLib, GIO by Clifton Wood.
• Math::NumberTheory, Lingua::NumericWordForms by Anton Antonov.
• Cromponent by Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira.
• Sparrow6 by Alexey Melezhik.
• CSV::Table, Pod::TreeWalker by Tom Browder.
• Prime::Factor by Stephen Schulze.
• HTML::Strip by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Winding down

Next week’s Weekly may be a day (or possibly a week) late on account of the second Raku Core Summit.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 19 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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