Originally published at Perl Weekly 706
Hi there,
Last weekend was busy with the FOSDEM 2025. Did you get the chance to attend the grand event? As always, this time too, we had Perl and Raku booth at the event. There was even an official statement from the TPF urging all members to join the Perl and Raku communities. The venue is not too far from where I live (London), yet I have never attended. In fact, I have never been to FOSDEM though every year I plan to attend and end up missing it.
While looking for more information, I came across this gem: Perl in 2025. This was part of FOSDEM 2021 by the master himself, Paul Evans. If you take a closer look, you will realise we are almost there. Being human, we are never satisfied and always want more. It is easy to demand more but very hard to give time and energy.
If you remember, I mentioned about the GitHub repository for PPC in the Perl Weekly newsletter. Now I hear, this will be exposed as GitHub pages as shared in this two parts post: part 1 and part 2 by Dave Cross.
Enjoy rest of the newsletter and please do take extra care of yourself.
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Your editor: Mohammad Sajid Anwar.
Announcements
Resigning from the TPF and TPRF board
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Perl Workflow v2.05
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Articles
A deep dive into the Perl type systems
There are exactly 7 types, all variables/values are exactly one of them, and they can never change into another type. Though only 5 of them are directly accessible so one could argue there are only 5 true types.
Proposed Perl Changes (part 1)
A thorough process to build PPC web portal shared in the post, with detailed story around it.
Proposed Perl Changes (part 2)
Continued from part 1, this goes further into the story.
How I used a named pipe to save memory and prevent crashes (in Perl)
An interesting realworld use case showing the power of named pipe. You must check it out.
Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
This post will walk through the implementation of a pair of features to augment those found in a MIDI keyboard — a M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61 in this case, though the principle should apply to any device.
Building a Simple Web Scraper with Perl
Here is fun post about web scraper using Perl.
Discussion
Regex to extract one part of the URI
Adding HTML font color tags to text file
Grants
Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): December 2024
Maintaining Perl (Tony Cook) November 2024
The Weekly Challenge
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The Weekly Challenge - 307
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RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 306
Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Odd Sum" and "Last Element" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.
Elementary Odd
Get to know more about the Raku magics and also the best practices to use in real world. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Transposed Games
Every week, we learn something new about CPAN module. This week, it was 'binsert'. Great work, keep it up.
Perl Weekly Challenge 306
Nice to see PDL in action. It makes end result compact and cute. Thanks for promoting PDL, keep it up.
Odd Game
Don't you love when you are presented with multiple solutions to the same problem. Plent to learn each week. Keep it up great work.
The Weekly Challenge #306
Multi loops and get the job done without any gimmicks. Sweet and simple solution, well done.
The Oddest Element
My personal favourite Postscript was the pick of the language for the blog post. The narration really helps to understand the flow. Thanks for your contributions.
The last odd
Welcome back after a short break, great to see you in action. Ideal for any Python fans. Keep it up great work.
Rakudo
2025.04 The First
Weekly collections
NICEPERL's lists
Great CPAN modules released last week.
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
Live online presentations
I organize live online presentation with guest speakers about Rust and Python. I'd also include presentations about Perl if there were volunteers to give such presentations. So if you have something that you think might be interesting to others and if you are ready to give a 30-60 min presentation about it, let me (Gabor) know.
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Boston.pm monthly meeting
Virtual event
Paris.pm monthly meeting
Paris, France
German Perl/Raku Workshop Conference 2025
Munich, Germany
The Perl and Raku Conference 2025
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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