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”
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Day 24 – Packaging and unpackaging real good
After all Rakuing along all Christmas, Santa realizes it’s a pretty good idea to keep things packed and ready to ship whenever it’s needed. So it looks at containers. Not the containers that might or might not actually be doing all the grunt work for bringing gifts to all good boys and girls in theContinue reading “Day 24 – Packaging and unpackaging real good”
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 22 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along
Part 1 of this article reported on the new journaling process for Santa’s employees and how they keep their individual work logs. Part 2 was a side step to show how to better manage Santa’s code by using the new Zef module repository. Part 3 was another side step because Santa was running out of time.
Day 19 – Let it Cro
Ah, advent. That time of year when the shops are filled with the sound of Christmas songs – largely, the very same ones they played when I was a kid. They’re a bit corny, but the familiarity is somehow reassuring. And what better way to learn about this year’s new Cro features than through the words ofContinue reading “Day 19 – Let it Cro”
Day 16 – Reindeer Express
Santa didn’t know if he should be worried or angry, and that made him angry. Unbeknown to the world he had been outsourcing a lot of the production of Christmas gifts to low cost countries like China. The elves had not liked it. They had threatened to unionize and bring the whole operation to aContinue reading “Day 16 – Reindeer Express”
Day 15 – 1 year of Comma
This year was yet another productive year for Comma, the Raku programming language IDE. Our small team has worked on numerous small improvements and bug fixes, as well as bigger features. In this article we’ll take a look at some bigger things that has landed this year. Duplicates detection Let’s take a look at thisContinue reading “Day 15 – 1 year of Comma”
Day 14 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along
Santa just heard that Rakoons using best practices are being urged to start putting their modules into the Raku-only module repository called Zef. He wanted to do that soon, since his philosophy is to be a good example of always trying to do the right thing, and helping guide his IT department in the direction of Zef is certainly the right thing to do according to the experts on IRC #raku.
Day 13 – Coloring your tools holidays
And if you’re in doubt yet whether Santa was really overloaded last year, just check out the advent calendar of 2020. That’s why back then I fetched out an old, dusty reddish-white cap, pulled it over my ears and started a small home-brew project to help my wife in her job.
Day 9 – Raku code coverage
Although I love using Raku, the fact that it is still a relatively young language means that there is a fair amount that is lacking when it comes to tooling, etc. Until recently, this included a way to calculate code coverage: how much of the code in a library is exercised (=covered) by that library’sContinue reading “Day 9 – Raku code coverage”
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