This is a reproduction of the talk I gave today at the awesome London Perl & Raku Workshop. I met a couple of cool rakuteers and enjoyed the relaxed congregation of perl and raku folk. Seems li…
About 3 weeks ago I thought it was time to go through the outstanding Rakudo compiler issues (an...
It’s that time of the year again: the time for writing Raku Advent Calendar blog posts! So that we can all enjoy them in the darkest days of the year (well, at least on the Northern Hemispher…
Steve Roe continued their series about functional programming in the Raku Programming Language with Raku Burritos, looking at translating code from F# and introducing a >>= infix operator. In…
Regular followers of this blog will know that I am on a bit of a Functional tack … I’m highly motivated to improve my functional chops because I am giving a talk at the London Perl and …
Alexandr Zahatski (aka zag) has released the Raku Knowledge Base, containing all the Raku documentation and then some, as an example of the web publishing capabilities of Podlite. Although this has…
Justin DeVuyst has produced the ninth Rakudo compiler release of 2024: 2024.09, a mostly bug-fixing release and one new Routine trait: is revision-gated. Binary packages will become available short…
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 …
Back in ’21 I asked the question Can Raku replace HTML? As expected that rather click-baity title got a lot of complaints. So I couldn’t resist repeating the meme. If you are wondering,…
John Haltiwanger has almost single-handedly revived the Comma IDE as a community supported IntelliJ plugin, in Introducing Comma 2.0… (/r/rakulang comments). From the bottom of my heart, I wa…
This represents a major shift for the Comma project in many ways. From the bottom of my heart, I want to express the deepest gratitude and thanks to Jona...
Patrick Böker has published a Raku module (called Rainbow) that parses Raku source code and provides a tokenised version of the code which can be used to provide syntax highlighting. This now gives…
This post is kind of part 3, coming off last week’s thrilling episode. I am a simple sole, I want to reduce the cognitive load in my web projects. The general idea is to go back to the halcyo…
Tim Nelson has published a generic introduction to Table-Oriented Programming and an overview of the implementation status / plans in the Raku Programming Language. Cool to see old ideas getting a …
In any case, on the language choice we are in agreement: as of now Raku is not a popular language, so requiring a user of the system to know the language cannot provide much appeal to the project.
FWIW, for this application, I'd say only knowledge of "baby" Raku is needed. And if you've had any exposure to "baby" Perl in the past, then you already have that.
I'm soo glad I dropped Windows 21+ years ago now!
Well, this is your chance to make sure Comma will continue!
Yeah, it is what it is. 😒 However, there is good hope that some people will at least continue development on the plugin version.
Mostly working on the Raku Programming Language. Born at 314 ppm.