intro – Raku Advent Calendar

Day 23 – A Day Late and A Fish Short

A banner showing a horizontal slice of an idle game. The slice contains four panels. From left to right, the first panel portrays an ocean horizon with calm seas, a bright blue sky, and a few gentle clouds overhead; the second panel describes plankton and two different measurements for amounts of plankton; the third panel portrays a fish; and the fourth panel portrays Bux, a currency described as "wireless cash", along with an amount.

Hello again! I return during this week of winter solstice to tell you about my experience participating in the Langjam Gamejam. I planned to use Raku, partially so that you could have an advent blogpost to read today, but also because Raku’s builtin support for grammars ensure that I would not get stuck when writingContinue reading “Day 23 – A Day Late and A Fish Short”

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”

Advent::Calendar

Welcome to the 14th edition of this Advent Calendar, which started at the old site, and continues in this new one. According to the Wikipedia, 14 years marks the ivory anniversary. If you really want to nitpick, it’s the 13th anniversary since it started in 2009, making it the lace anniversary. I’ll go for that.Continue reading “Advent::Calendar”

It’s that time of the year… again

And we’re still around and kicking new advent posts with the best, the nicest and the merely possible in the Raku realm. Also the 13th year in a row for this calendar, and also 6th year since what was then called Perl 6 was released. Raku is now faster, it’s already in production in aContinue reading “It’s that time of the year… again”