This is the first of a weekly overview of blog posts about the Raku Programming Language.

2023.05

• Recollections from the Raku Core Summit

in which Jonathan Worthington reports on their work at the RCS. With special attention for RakuAST BEGIN time issues, and RakuDoc discussions.

• Cleaner code with functional programming

in which Wim Vanderbauwhede describes functional programming paradigms, with side-by-side examples of Raku and Python.

• New Kid On The Block

in which Vadim Belman introduces their new LibXML::Class Raku module, which allows for lazy deserialization of large XML structures.

• FunctionalParsers

in which Anton Antonov introduces their new FunctionalParsers Raku module, which follows the 1997 “Functional parsers” article by Jeroen Fokker.

• Rakudo Weekly News 2023.25

with all recent developments around Rakudo, an implementation of the Raku Programming Language.