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   by librasteve 4mo ago

   well the whole point of the rename is to sidestep the Perl vs. Raku navelgazing
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   by librasteve 4mo ago

   sorry about the 502, glad to hear that is now resolved - there is some dogfooding going on with this site (uses https://harcstack.org ) well yeah the call to action is for all interested folks to register so that we can share det
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   by librasteve 4mo ago

   The site explains "why the EU" as follows: A driving motivation for the immediate formation of The Raku Foundation in a country in the European Union is the Cyber Resilience Act, which will make it mandatory for any software that
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   by librasteve 4mo ago

   lol - I guess there is no defence for the long delays in getting Perl6 out of the door (2000-2015) and for sure that Osborned perl (5) and created a justified reaction from the perl community who wished that it had never happened. Thus the
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   The Raku Foundation is born(raku.foundation)

   65 points by librasteve 4mo ago|47 comments
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   by librasteve 4mo ago

   see also https://dev.to/lizmat/a-year-later-a-trf-1lh0 for some history and perspective
7. 67.▲
   by librasteve 4mo ago

   This is one of the leading members of the Raku community and the original founder announcing the establishment of The Raku Foundation (a break away from the TPRF)
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   by librasteve 4mo ago

   great post … thanks for all the work personally I would like to see a compare and contrast between the Intel 8087 (built around an full width adder), 287 and the Weitek 1167 (built around a full width mac and barrel shifter) as you note, al
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   by librasteve 4mo ago

   glad you mention https://slangify.org … we are pulling together a set of tooling and example DSLs to make this kind of LLM-DSL combination super easy
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    whatever you do, don’t search urban dictionary for DSL definition
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    good - I have resorted to a config setting to suppress these bad icons on Tahoe
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    Evaluating LLM-generated code for domain-specific languages(sciencedirect.com)

    2 points by librasteve 4mo ago|1 comments
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    Any experience out there wrt LLMs generating DSL code (your story or hard data both welcome)?
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    Also I posted on this topic https://rakujourney.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/slangify-the-ca... keen to hear real world feedback on this angle.
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    Slangify: The Case for DSLs in LLM Workflows(slangify.org)

    4 points by librasteve 4mo ago|1 comments
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    but, the earth is flatter than it looks … since, according to GR, spacetime is convex around it gravity well
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    This is an awesome achievement. I am not so sure how you made it 4x slower than C … since it strikes me that you have 1:1 mapping to asm, perhaps vector benchmarks are unfair for this kind of comparison. To those who criticize use of LLM in
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    i like the rust page example… use std; import std::io; fn main() { for i in [1, 2, 3] { io::println(#fmt("hello %d\n", i)); } } here’s what the Raku site should look like: say “hello $_” for ^3
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    this homepage has snippets to die for https://raku.org/
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    by librasteve 4mo ago

    This looks like an interesting project, coming from another minority language - Raku - I can see how dogfooding like this is a great way to try and help Julia break into the Python hegemony (yawn) esp. in academic circles. otoh, I am not su
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    lol … fwiw we are as bemused by the situation as anyone (well, I am, I can’t really speak for anyone else). My take is that Raku (née perl6) got the worst of all worlds … divided the perl community, was 15 years in the making, got dragged i
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    red face … thanks for the correction … I guess I should have looked at https://moarvm.org
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    thanks! I have done a bit of work on Raku + Polars (ie the Pandas rewrite in Rust). This has been hampered by Rust lack of a binary FFI - so it has ended up running into unsafe keyhole surgery territory. My current feel is that we would nee
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    There has been some speculation about porting the Raku backend (Meta-Object Aware Runtime Virtual Machine - MOARVM)from C to Zig. For example the wider set of Zig Hash options could be a big optimization. Since you ask, the front end is sel
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    yeah - it's the symmetry breaking
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    Using DSLs with LLMs: From Prompt to Structured Output(librasteve.github.io)

    3 points by librasteve 5mo ago|1 comments
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    I just wrote a tutorial on using DSLs with LLMs. Curious to hear feedback on this approach - for those who have already taken this path, please share your experience- good and bad.
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    balls! (golf balls)
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    I would “up” this a little and say that scripting languages “should” be slow in comparison to low level compiled languages. We want eg. runtime evaluation of multis dependent on type. For (cod) example: subset Even of Int where * %% 2;
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    by librasteve 5mo ago

    the clue is in the name