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Day 19 – Welcome to the Megadungeon

Welcome, weary traveler. It is known that you come bearing earnest questions and we congratulate you on managing to arrive here, on this precipice of doom. Not a brutal doom, nor even a fearful doom, but a doom as in a fate open to you. See, your arrival here stands foretold. In fact, we builtContinue reading “Day 19 – Welcome to the Megadungeon”

Day 20 – Re-introducing a Raku plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Ever since its release back in the distant universe of 2018, I was a big fan and paying user of Comma IDE. Produced by the lovely folks over at Edument, Comma was both a full-fledged, standalone IDE as well as a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA-based IDEs.

Day 16 – Revision gating in Rakudo core

The motivation One of the Rakudo features I worked on this year was to resolve an annoyance related to the Array.splice method. As reported in a GitHub issue called Array.splice insists on flattening itself: The author of the ticket tried all sorts of mechanisms to inform splice that the @newrow array should be inserted asContinue reading “Day 16 – Revision gating in Rakudo core”

Day 23 – Optimizing Raku programs with Zig

The wind blows snow from across the glowing windows of Santa’s front office, revealing a lone elf sitting in front of a computer. She looks despondent, head in hands, palms rubbing up against eyes, mouth yawning… Tikka has been working double shifts to finish the new package address verification mechanism. There have been some unfortunateContinue reading “Day 23 – Optimizing Raku programs with Zig”

Day 8 – Make it Snow 2.0: The Snowfall Strikes Back

Introduction Seven years ago I wrote a blog post on the previous incarnation of this advent calendar that demonstrated a new library I had written, called Terminal::Print, by making a (very primitive) snowfall simulator. However, I was never entirely pleased with the outcome, especially after I saw this video about an implementation in APL thatContinue reading “Day 8 – Make it Snow 2.0: The Snowfall Strikes Back”

RFC 43: Integrate BigInts (and BigRats) Support Tightly With The Basic Scalars

Intro RFC 43, titled ‘Integrate BigInts (and BigRats) Support Tightly With The Basic Scalars’ was submitted by Jarkko Hietaniemi on 5 August 2000. It remains at version 1 and was never frozen during the official RFC review process. Despite this somewhat “unoffical” seeming status, the rational (or Rat) numeric type, by default, powers all ofContinue reading “RFC 43: Integrate BigInts (and BigRats) Support Tightly With The Basic Scalars”