Author Archives: Elizabeth Mattijsen

Day 7 – The Magic Of $/

Santa was dabbling a bit with regexes in the Raku Programming Language, just to satisfy their curiosity. Trying to find out how many children have a first name that starts with a vowel. That seemed like a nice little project! Since the Big Database Server at the North Pole was already heating up a lot,Continue reading “Day 7 – The Magic Of $/”

Day 6 – The Future Of POD6

by Kay Rhodes Some people believe that “code should be self documenting”. They believe that we don’t need inline docs because you can just look at the code and see what it’s doing. The reality is that everyone’s brain works differently. Everyone processes new information differently. My brain’s extra divergent. I have a working memoryContinue reading “Day 6 – The Future Of POD6”

Day 25: Rakudo 2022 Review

In a year as eventful as 2022 was in the real world, it is a good idea to look back to see what one might have missed while life was messing with your (Raku) plans. Rakudo saw about 1500 commits this year, about the same as the year before that. Many of these were bugContinue reading “Day 25: Rakudo 2022 Review”

Day 18: Something else

Santa was absent-mindedly going through the Rakudo commits of the past weeks, after hearing about the new 2022.12 release of the Rakudo compiler. And noticed that there were no commits after that release anymore. Had all the elves been too busy doing other stuff in the Holiday Season, he wondered. But, in other years, the Raku coreContinue reading “Day 18: Something else”

Day 9: Something old, something borrowed, something new, something stashed

Santa, having a little time off earlier this year, was looking at all of the modules that the Raku elves had made over the years, now over 2000 of them! But then he noticed something: not all of the modules appear to come from the same ecosystem? So what’s going on here, he asked one of theContinue reading “Day 9: Something old, something borrowed, something new, something stashed”

Day 25 – Future-proofing the Raku Programming Language

Around this time last year, Jonathan Worthington was writing their Advent Post called Reminiscence, refinement, revolution. Today, yours truly finds themselves writing a similar blog post after what can only be called a peculiar year in the world. The Language Visible Changes The most visible highlights in the Raku Programming Language are basically: last / next with a value Normally, last just stopsContinue reading “Day 25 – Future-proofing the Raku Programming Language”

Day 23 – The Life of Raku Module Authoring

by Tony O’Dell Hello, world! This article is a lot about fez and how you can get started writing your first module and making it available to other users. Presuming you have rakudo and zef installed, install fez! Make sure that the last line is in your $PATH so the next set of commands all run smoothly. Now we can start writing the actualContinue reading “Day 23 – The Life of Raku Module Authoring”

Day 4 – Santa’s OCD Sorted

Santa has been around for a long time already. Santa remembers the days when bits where set by using a magnetic screwdriver! In those days, you’d made sure that things were orderly set up and sorted for quick access. Santa likes the Raku Programming Language a lot, because it just works like Santa thinks. There’sContinue reading “Day 4 – Santa’s OCD Sorted”