Originally published at Perl Weekly 623

Hi there!

Good news. The new version of perl is out, just in time to be included in this edition. See the announcement and the perldelta for changes. If I understand correctly the bigges change by far is the addition of the class keyword. There are also a number of deprecations you will want to pay attention to. If you'd like to take it for a ride you can find the instruction how to install perl. You can also use perlbrew to install it. I hope we'll soon have a Strawberry Perl release as well.

Last week I asked two questions on various forums:

If someone asks you why contribute to open source? What do you say?

If you don't contribute to any open source project, what stops you from contributing?

I've collected some of the responses at the bottom of the page: Why contribute to open source.

As Mohammad already mentioned last week, I've set up a Zulip-based chat server for people who would like to get help on their path to contributing to open source. In this community I we'll be able to support contributors in several programming languages. We started with Perl, Python, and Rust. You are invited

Enjoy your week!

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Your editor: Gabor Szabo.

Announcements

perl v5.38.0 is now available

See the changes in perldelta

Articles

How to get started with open source contribution?

Maximize Data::Printer strings length

The Perl data structures and objects pretty printer Data::Printer would trim strings longer than 4096 characters (this is the default value). This is something that can be parameterized in the ~/.dataprinter file:

A small contribution is still very valuable

People often think that in order to contribute to an open source project you have to be some kind of an expert. Far from it. There are plenty of things one can do even with very little knowledge. Here I contributed a one-line change to the documentation of a Rust library even though I have only started to learn Rust. If I could do it I am sure all of you can.

Perl Skewer

A fine example of being scary and fun at the same time.

New release of Plack::App::ServiceStatus

Plack::App::ServiceStatus is a small Plack app that can be used for health checks and general info about your app and its dependencies.

Faster and up to date HTTP Cookie Jar

The release of HTTP::State. Fast RFC6265bis-draft + CHIPS Cookie Jar

dynamically

The discovery of Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically.

SQL::Inserter for faster/multi-row inserting

SQL::Inserter is new CPAN module based on what is being used at SpareRoom to easily manage buffered inserts, as well as to replace SQL::Abstract's slow insert method.

Compiling Perl for Android

Branding Perl

CamelFace

This would be funny if it was not indicative of a problem.

CPAN

List of new CPAN distributions – Jun 2023

The Weekly Challenge

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The Weekly Challenge - 224

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Special Notes" and "Additive Number". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ.

RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 223

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Count Primes" and "Box Coins" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

Boxed Primes

Raku one-liner is shared with detailed description by our inhouse Raku expert.

Count Primes? I've Never Met the Man

Using CPAN makes the solution look simple and elegant. Thanks for sharing.

PWC223 - Count Primes

Compact solutions in Perl and Raku too. You must checkout.

PWC223 - Box Coins

Brute force can be handy as shown in this blog. Well done.

Perl Weekly Challenge 223: Count Primes

Raku built-in routine is very handy to get the job done. Please do checkout.

Perl Weekly Challenge 223: Box Coins

Comparing Perl and Raku solutions is fun and plenty to learn. Thanks for sharing.

Perl Weekly Challenge 223

One-liner in Perl by our in-house expert. Well done.

Sieves and Coins

Really cool trick to solve the task "Box Coins" in Perl. Keep it up great work.

Counting primes and maximising cash

As usual, we got well documented solutions this week, thanks for sharing.

The Weekly Challenge #223

Loved the way difficult task handled, well done and keep it up.

Counting Boxes

Javascript power up and take the challenge. Highly recommended.

Counting the coins

Breaking down task makes it easy to understand and follow, thanks for sharing.

Other

GitHub Pages failed me

This and the following article just made me want to explore the various Static Site Generators.

kramdown Table of Contents in pages

Weekly collections

NICEPERL's lists

Great CPAN modules released last week;
MetaCPAN weekly report;
StackOverflow Perl report.

Events

The Perl and Raku Conference 2023

July 11-13, 2023, Toronto, Canada

Perl and Koha

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Perl Weekly #623 - perl v5.38.0 was released