As a Raku Programming Language module developer, you are sometimes surprised by the tools that you use. In this case, yours truly was surprised by a recent update of the excellent App::Mi6 tool by Shoichi Kaji. After an upgrade, it started adding a .github/workflows/test.yml file to new distributions. And this in turn caused Github to test the distribution after each commit using GithubContinue reading “Day 13 – Helping the Github Action elves”
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Day 10: My 10 commandments for Raku performances
1. The profiler you will use Raku has a nice visual profiler. No excuse to ignore it, it is extremely simple to use. Just run the profiler with raku –profile=myprofile.html foo.raku then open the generated HTML file in your favorite browser (for instance firefox myprofile.html &). This is an overview of what you can haveContinue reading “Day 10: My 10 commandments for Raku performances”
Day 7: Mixing Bash and Raku Using Sparrow
Sparrow is a Raku automation framework which could be easily integrated with many other programming languages. So if you come from no knowledge of the Raku language – you’re welcome. In this post I’ll show you have one can effectively mix Bash scripts and Raku language using Sparrow. The idea of Sparrow – to chooseContinue reading “Day 7: Mixing Bash and Raku Using Sparrow”
Day 5: Raku & Pakku
A hobby One day I woke and decided I want to learn programming as a hobby. For someone who doesn’t know much about the subject other than writing a few Bash scripts, words like Functional Programming, Object Oriented or even the word class by itself were mysterious. Lost Doing my research to find out whereContinue reading “Day 5: Raku & Pakku”
Day 9: a chain (or Russian doll) of containers
If you’re in the business, you’ve probably by now heard about containers. They can be described as executables on steroids, or also, as its namesake, a great way of shipping applications anywhere, or have then stored and ready to use whenever you need them. These kinda-executables are called images, and you can find them inContinue reading “Day 9: a chain (or Russian doll) of containers”
Day 6 – Put some (GitHub) Actions in your Raku (repositories)
After being in beta for quite some time, GitHub actions were finally introduced to the general public in November 2019. They have very soon become ubiquitous, over all combined with the other release that were recently made by GitHub, the package (and container) registry. We can put them to good use with our Raku modules.Continue reading “Day 6 – Put some (GitHub) Actions in your Raku (repositories)”
