dependency manager – Raku Advent Calendar

Day 11 – Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package

A textual depiction of Camelia, the Raku mascot with the middle character underlined

In the previous post, I made a case for why programming languages should have a utility library that provides small-but-commonly-needed functions. Today I’m introducing a Raku package that I hope will fill that gap and discussing how this fits with the Unix philosophy

Day 6 – Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad

The Unix philosophy famously holds that you should write software that “does one thing, and does it well”. But following that advice too literally can lead to the micro-package dystopia that got us left-pad. But there is a way to write libraries that do only one thing without getting left-pad

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”