Originally published at Perl Weekly 678

Hi there,

The release of latest version of Perl kicked the process to elect new Perl Steering Council. I am happy to see the return of Philip Bruhat and Graham Knop to the fold alongwith the new member Aristotle Pagaltzis. I would like to take this opportunity to thank, Paul Evans for the quality contributions. Thanks to the PSC, we get regular updates about the work being carried out. If you are interested to know more about it then there is handy website, https://psc.perlhacks.com, created by Dave Cross.

As you all know we had big release Perl v5.40 last month and here in one month we have two more relases Perl v5.41.0 and Perl v5.41.1. If you checkout the changes in the last two releases, you will find mostly updates to Modules and Pragmata. For me, the most significant change is the addition of chdir as a subroutine to the CORE:: namespace.

There is another big change proposed by Curtis Poe about allowing can() to take a list of methods. Having checked the discussion, it seems to have closed without merge unfortunately.

Have you played with Bitcoin? Well I haven't yet but will do soon when I find spare time. For now, if you are interested to learn more about it from the Perl perlspective, we got 2-part series, part one and part two, by Bartosz Jarzyna shared for Perl Advent Calendar 2023. Once you have finished reading them we have an update on development of Bitcoin libraries.

Do you create quick one-liner in Perl? If yes then please do checkout this short video. I started watching but couldn't finish it as I lost the interest halfway through. I have bookmarked it for now, will come back soon. If you are looking for cool one-liners in Perl or Raku then I would highly recommend the contributions by the Team PWC down below under the section The Weekly Challenge.

Last but not least we have another big release Dancer2 1.1.1 announced in the blog post by Jason Crome. I am very excited about the update and to know that it is being looked after. Thanks to the entire Dancer Core Team. Keep it up great work.

Enjoy the summer holiday break and rest of the newsletter.

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Your editor: Mohammad Sajid Anwar.

Announcements

Dancer2 1.1.1 Released

The Dancer Core Team is happy to announce that Dancer2 1.1.1 is on its way to CPAN.

Updated, curated, Perl module TiddlyWiki

Virtual presentations for Perl developers

Continuous Integration (CI): GitHub Actions for Perl Projects (Free Virtual presentation on August 4)

This events was postponed to August 4. In this virtual event you will learn why and how to use GitHub Actions as a CI system for your Perl projects. The meeting is free of charge thanks to my supporters via Patreon and GitHub. Besides this event I am running many more, so make sure you check the Code Mavens meetup group and also register to it.

Articles

Sailing the Seven YAPCs

YAPC event report by another attendee Buddy Burden. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

Repository of examples using Perl and Assembly together

Sometimes one needs an extra ounce of performance. Why not combine the high level semantics of Perl with the punch of assembly?

Grants

PEVANS Core Perl 5: Grant Report for April, May, June 2024

Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): June 2024

The Weekly Challenge

The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Sajid Anwar will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one champion at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month, thanks to the sponsor Lance Wicks.

The Weekly Challenge - 279

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Sort Letters" and "Split String". 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 - 278

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

TWC278

Another display of Perl's cool features and great solutions. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us.

Sginrt and droW

Don't you love the brave heart? I liked taking the difficult path and getting job done with ease. Keep it up great work.

Sort of Reverse

Raku one-liner is showing off method chaining once again. Raku Rocks.

Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 278

Coming from Raku master, the Perl one-liner is one of my favourite. Great work, keep it up.

Split, Sort and Join

Bullet points converted into working code in Perl. You really don't want to miss the gem. Well done.

Perl Weekly Challenge 278: Sort String

Pure regex solution in Perl and Raku. Please do checkout the workings.

Perl Weekly Challenge 278: Reverse Word

Simple yet elegant approach to get the job done. You get the bonus indepth discussion. Well done and keep it up.

CHALLENGES (almost) IN A ROW

Consistent contributor of PostgreSQL solutions. Highly recommended as you get bonus too.

Perl Weekly Challenge 278

Classic one-liner in Perl as always that takes care of every given example. Keep it up great work.

Word Reverse String Sort

I love the musical introduction to a tech blog and then follows the pure tech discussion. Great work, thanks for sharing.

Tangled string and drow

DIY web interface with detailed analysis. Cool quality solutions every week.

The Weekly Challenge - 278

Pure Perl solution without any dependency this week covering every examples. Great work.

The Weekly Challenge #278

Breaking down big task into smaller tasks makes it easy to implement. Take a look and see it yourself.

Reverse the Sort in Strings of Words

Playing with regex can be a tough task for beginners but once you get there it becomes piece of cake. Highly recommended.

Rakudo

2024.29 Intel -exprJIT +5%

Weekly collections

NICEPERL's lists

Great CPAN modules released last week.

Events

Toronto Perl Mongers monthly meeting

July 25, 2024, Virtual event

Continuous Integration (CI): GitHub Actions for Perl Projects

August 4, 2024, in Zoom

GitHub Pages for Perl developers

August 15, 2024, in Zoom

London Perl and Raku Workshop

October 26, 2024, in London, UK

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