John Haltiwanger has almost single-handedly revived the Comma IDE as a community supported IntelliJ plugin, in Introducing Comma 2.0… (/r/rakulang comments). From the bottom of my heart, I wa…
This represents a major shift for the Comma project in many ways. From the bottom of my heart, I want to express the deepest gratitude and thanks to Jona...
Patrick Böker has published a Raku module (called Rainbow) that parses Raku source code and provides a tokenised version of the code which can be used to provide syntax highlighting. This now gives…
This post is kind of part 3, coming off last week’s thrilling episode. I am a simple sole, I want to reduce the cognitive load in my web projects. The general idea is to go back to the halcyo…
Tim Nelson has published a generic introduction to Table-Oriented Programming and an overview of the implementation status / plans in the Raku Programming Language. Cool to see old ideas getting a …
Last week, I started to blog about using Semantic HTML – specifically HTMX and Pico CSS – using Raku and Cro. As I continue with my project to implement all the HTMX examples in Raku /C…
Steve Roe has started a series of blog posts about the marriage of Cro and HTMX, exciting stuff for people who’d like to get rid of the complexities of modern web development: Why Cro? Why HT…
This post describes how to apply HTMX functionality with the Raku Cro web framework. I have already shared a couple of precursor posts that explain separately Why HTMX? and Why Cro?. Why HTMX and C…
this post is a tee-up for some new ideas combining Cro and HTMX – more to come courtesy perpexity.ai HTMX is gaining popularity as a lightweight alternative to complex JavaScript frameworks f…
Stefan Seifert has been very busy with RakuAST this week, fixing about 5 test-files a day! And getting closer to the point where we can think of setting a date for the release of language level 6.e…
The next phase of the removal of the original “p6c” ecosystem has started. Elizabeth Mattijsen reports on the progress so far with “The End Of p6c”. In short: 99 modules rem…
In the past 2 years, module distributions in the https://raku.org that were being published through...
Mattiadg asked a question on /r/rakulang, basically: “is there a significant difference between Python and Raku” in a post called “Starting Raku for python developer”. This …
In any case, on the language choice we are in agreement: as of now Raku is not a popular language, so requiring a user of the system to know the language cannot provide much appeal to the project.
FWIW, for this application, I'd say only knowledge of "baby" Raku is needed. And if you've had any exposure to "baby" Perl in the past, then you already have that.
I'm soo glad I dropped Windows 21+ years ago now!
Well, this is your chance to make sure Comma will continue!
Yeah, it is what it is. 😒 However, there is good hope that some people will at least continue development on the plugin version.
Mostly working on the Raku Programming Language. Born at 314 ppm.