In our last edition, we learned about some of the work that Santa’s elves put into automating how they make their lists. What you probably didn’t know is that the elves stay on top of the latest and greatest technology. Being well-known avid Raku programmers, the elves were excited to hear about RakuAST and decidedContinue reading “Day 24: He’s making a list… (part 2)”
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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 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 10 – Java Annotations in Raku or my @annotation is role;
Today, a little about the fact that the new is better absorbed through the already known. It so happened that I write for $dayjob in Java, so I will come from this side. Java 1.5 introduces an interesting syntactic form – annotations. It looks something like this: The example shows an annotation @Deprecated that causesContinue reading “Day 10 – Java Annotations in Raku or my @annotation is role;”
Day 24: The Grinch of Raku, Part 2: Hold Your Horses
In 2017, the Grinch ruined Christmas by showing off some of the naughty things you can do with Raku’s features. Unfortunately, while his heart grew by three sizes that year, there’s more than one Grinch! This Grinch will be doing something extra naughty this year, taking some inspiration from the JavaScript community. You may haveContinue reading “Day 24: The Grinch of Raku, Part 2: Hold Your Horses”
Day 21: Searching for a Red gift
Alabaster Snowball, the elf, was searching for a gift for the person he had drawn on the North Pole’s Secret Santa. He had the great honour to draw Santa! What to give for the one who gives everyone’s presents? So he was searching on the internet for some keywords he knew Santa would like: automaticContinue reading “Day 21: Searching for a Red gift”
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