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2026.18 Star Wars Day

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/05/04/2026-18-star-wars-day/

Published: May 4, 2026 18:02

Post Image CC BY-SA 2.0 Darryl W. Moran Photography http://www.facebook.com/Subject.Matters.Photography/ El Che’s Corner Fedora 44 is out (rakudo-pkg has Fedora 44 rpms) and also Ubuntu 26.04 debs 🙂 Awesome! Anton’s Corner Anton Antonov sheds some light on…

2026.17 Release #192

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/04/27/2026-17-release-192/

Published: April 27, 2026 14:36

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m happy to announce the April 2026 release of Rakudo #192 – also known as 2026.04. Rakudo is an implementation of the Raku language [says Will Coleda] New in 2026.04: Improvements: Fixes: Additions: RakuAST: The…

2026.16 Selkie TUI Framework

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/04/21/2026-16-selkie-tui-framework/

Published: April 21, 2026 18:33

Post Image: Carolyn Emerick, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Matt’s Corner Matt Doughty has served up a double helping of Selkie this week. This is a TUI (Terminal User Interface) module written in Raku…

2026.15 Hugs & Busses

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/04/13/2026-15-hugs-busses/

Published: April 13, 2026 17:59

Post image attribution: Eddie Leslie from Lancashire, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Whateverables Corner This week sees the release of 3 (yes, 3) new Whateverables. The Whateverables are a collection of…

2026.14 Trim Flip-flops

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/04/06/2026-14-trim-flip-flops/

Published: April 6, 2026 18:45

Habere’s Corner Habere-et-Dispertire has shared some new notes on using the raku command: TPRC Submit your Talk Don’t Miss the Perl and Raku Conference 2026 in Greenville, SCSAVE THE DATES! Friday through Sunday, June 26-28 Registration is open:…

2026.13 Release #191

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/03/31/2026-13-release-191/

Published: March 31, 2026 11:36

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m happy to announce the March 2026 release of Rakudo #191. Rakudo is an implementation of the Raku1 language. The source tarball for this release is available from https://rakudo.org/files/rakudo. Pre-compiled…

2026.12 Ich bin ein Berliner

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/03/23/2026-12-ich-bin-ein-berliner/

Published: March 23, 2026 19:19

TPRC Talk Submission Deadline Extended Breaking news: TPRC Talk Submission Deadline extended to April 21, 2026. Many thanks to the organisers for heeding our call for more time. We are re-opening the talk submissions for TPRC with a new deadline of April…

2026.11 Pi Day 2026

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/03/16/2026-11-pi-day-2026/

Published: March 16, 2026 16:33

German Perl/Raku Workshop 28th German Perl/Raku Workshop (16th-18th March 2026 in Berlin) in now in session. I look forward to seeing the videos and presentations, meantime here is the list to whet your appetite. Forthcoming Perl & Raku Conference in…

2026.10 Climbing CragCLI

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/03/10/2026-10-climbing-cragcli/

Published: March 10, 2026 14:48

Steve’s Corner You may have heard me mention App::Crag before – it’s a command line application implemented as a Raku module. CRAG is an acronym for Calculator using RAku Grammar. I have been working on it as a hobby for some time. I feel that now it is…

2026.09 Release #190 (2026.02)

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/03/02/2026-09-release-190-2026-02/

Published: March 2, 2026 19:01

The following people contributed to this release: Will Coleda, Elizabeth Mattijsen, librasteve, David Simon Schultz, Eric Forste, Justin DeVuyst, Patrick Böker, Coleman McFarland, Daniel Green, Márton Polgár, 2colours, 4zv4l Forthcoming German Perl/Raku…