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…

The Raku Knowledge Base

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…

The London Perl & Raku Workshop

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 …

Last week, I started to blog about using Semantic HTML – specifically HTMX and Pico CSS – using Raku and Cro. As I continue with my project to implement all the HTMX examples in Raku /C…

Steve Roe has started a series of blog posts about the marriage of Cro and HTMX, exciting stuff for people who’d like to get rid of the complexities of modern web development: Why Cro? Why HT…

This post describes how to apply HTMX functionality with the Raku Cro web framework. I have already shared a couple of precursor posts that explain separately Why HTMX? and Why Cro?. Why HTMX and C…

The London Perl & Raku Workshop

this post is a tee-up for some new ideas combining Cro and HTMX – more to come courtesy perpexity.ai HTMX is gaining popularity as a lightweight alternative to complex JavaScript frameworks f…

Stefan Seifert has been very busy with RakuAST this week, fixing about 5 test-files a day! And getting closer to the point where we can think of setting a date for the release of language level 6.e…

The next phase of the removal of the original “p6c” ecosystem has started. Elizabeth Mattijsen reports on the progress so far with “The End Of p6c”. In short: 99 modules rem…

In the past 2 years, module distributions in the https://raku.org that were being published through...

Mattiadg asked a question on /r/rakulang, basically: “is there a significant difference between Python and Raku” in a post called “Starting Raku for python developer”. This …

Raku programming

Anton Antonov has produced a another nice video with Mondrian paintings, again showing the use of their Raku modules. London Workshop 2024 The first batch of talks for the London Workshop (on Satur…

Hillel Wayne has written a blog post about various “toolbox languages”, of which they consider the Raku Programming Language to be one: “for personal scripting and toolkits, it’s …

A toolbox language is a programming language that’s good at solving problems without requiring third party packages. My default toolbox languages are Python and shell scripts, which you probably already know about. Here are some of my more obscure ones. AutoHotKey Had to show up! Autohotkey is basic...

A bit of a scare just before the 2024.06 release of Rakudo caused some further investigation into the expression JIT logic in MoarVM on Intel processors. It was followed by the realization that the…

Wenzel P.P. Peppmeyer was inspired by a problem solving issue, and decided to ask a Llama: the result was a yaw dropping answer. Conference Videos The Raku videos of the conference in Las Vegas tha…

How to build user interfaces for internal web applications

After writing my original post Learnings in Raku and Pg Concurrency I learned a few more things to...

Scott Sotka has published a nice blog post about how they started using Raku in production, and what they learned to make that all happen: Learnings in Raku and Pg Concurrency. Nice to see that thi…

I've been making my living with Perl 5 and PostgreSQL since the mid 90's but lately I've been giving...