Alexander Kiryuhin announced the Rakudo 2020.07 Compiler Release just a few days after the targeted date! The delay was caused by some build breakage introduced just days before the release, which … | Continue reading
A group of Raku community members have come together to support the election of a Raku Steering Council using a Raku Governance Model (which is modelled after the Python Governance Model). If you h… | Continue reading
Arne Sommer, inspired by a solution of a previous Weekly Challenge, wrote a small series of blog posts about | Continue reading
Alexander Kiryuhin announced the Rakudo 2020.06 Compiler Release at the expected date! The associated binary packages are available at the expected locations. Conference in the Cloud A last minute … | Continue reading
In just over 7 months, the /r/rakulang subreddit has had more than 500 people join it. Although this is still a lot less than the 1631 people that joined the now closed /r/perl6 subreddit, that num… | Continue reading
Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer has written not one, not two, not three, but four blogs in the past two weeks, each addressing some feature or quirk of the Raku Programming Language. The Mysterious Infix (/… | Continue reading
Arne Sommer has started publishing a number of blog posts on how to create a Raku shell (a command line interpreter like Bash). The first instalments cover paths, loops, catching interrupts and run… | Continue reading
Jeff Goff (a.k.a. DrForr)1970 – 2020 On Saturday 14 March, it became known that our well-loved Jeff has died in a snorkelling accident during or shortly after the JoCoCruise 2020. The Perl an… | Continue reading
Yours truly is on the road to the 22nd German Perl/Raku Workshop 2020 in Erlangen, Germany. The program starts on Tuesday evening with a Pre-event Social. The program has the following presentation… | Continue reading
Jonathan Stowe announced a long overdue migration to the Raku era of their NoiseGang portal, a group for the promotion and support of audio and music application development. Definitely a place to … | Continue reading
Arne Sommer has blogged about a recent breaking change with regards to reblessing objects: Raku and the (Re)blessed Child and Exploring Rebless with Raku. In it, they express frustration with worki… | Continue reading
Patrick Böker lets us know that rakudobrew (originally by Tadeusz Sośnierz) has been re-imagined as rakubrew and that it is ready for testing! It allows one to have multiple versions of different R… | Continue reading
Sterling Hanenkamp (of Raku Async Advent fame) has written an endearing blog about their position with regards to the renaming of Perl 6 to Raku and the important things in life. (/r/rakulang comme… | Continue reading
It’s the time of the decade to be looking forward! 2020 will be the first full year of the Raku Programming Language. Yours truly predicts that more people will be using Raku in the twenties … | Continue reading
Vadim Belman as the headliner once again? Well, last week the news was that their work on roles of the past months was merged. This week, they blogged extensively about it! With a little introducti… | Continue reading
Vadim Belman has extensively reviewed the way Roles work in Raku, and came to the conclusion that quite a lot of work would need to be done on them to make them fully accessible and malleable from … | Continue reading
Naoum Hankache has taken the famous perl6intro.com website, which currently provides the same introduction in 13 different languages, to the Raku era at (/r/rakulang comments). So if your native la… | Continue reading
In the past months, Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira has been working on Red, an ORM for Raku, with a twist! It pushes the meta-programming features of Raku to new heights. But now Fernando needs feedba… | Continue reading
Jonathan Worthington and the other people at Edument, have been very busy in the past week indeed. Not only did it see a new Comma IDE release (the IDE for Raku), with such new goodies as support f… | Continue reading
Timo Paulssen has published an impressive progress report on his work on the performance tooling of Raku on the MoarVM backend, specifically about the user interface of the Heap Snapshotter. This n… | Continue reading
Welcome to the first issue of the Rakudo Weekly, formerly known as the Perl 6 Weekly. It continues the tradition of weekly news about the development of Rakudo, an implementation of the Raku P… | Continue reading