Raku Advent Calendar

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One article on Raku per day, until Christmas.

Full list of 2025 Raku Advent Blog Posts

It’s that time of the year

Welcome to the Raku Advent Calendar, where we share one Raku article a day until Christmas. This is going to be the 16th year in a row with a Perl 6 or Raku calendar, previously published in the Perl 6 Advent Calendar blog.

Anyway. Here we go again! We have lined a up a full (or eventually full by the time the Advent Calendar is finished … a Seq if you will) set of articles on many different topics, on wide a range of beginner, intermediate levels. All of them about our beloved Raku.

So, enjoy, stay healthy, and have -Ofun reading this nice list of articles this year will be bringing.

Thanks to Anton Antonov and his AI-elves for the seasonal images.

  • Day 25 – Raku 2025 Review

    How time flies. Yet another year has flown by. Let’s first start with the technical stuff, as nerds do! Rakudo Rakudo saw about 1650 commits (MoarVM, NQP, Rakudo, doc) this year, which is about 20% less than 2024. All of these repositories now have “main” as their default branch (rather than “master”). About 58% ofContinue reading “Day 25 – Raku 2025 Review”

  • Day 24 – Maze Making Using Graphs

    by Anton Antonov Antonov

    This document (notebook) describes three ways of making mazes (or labyrinths) using graphs. The first two are based on rectangular grids; the third on a hexagonal grid.

  • A banner showing a horizontal slice of an idle game. The slice contains four panels. From left to right, the first panel portrays an ocean horizon with calm seas, a bright blue sky, and a few gentle clouds overhead; the second panel describes plankton and two different measurements for amounts of plankton; the third panel portrays a fish; and the fourth panel portrays Bux, a currency described as "wireless cash", along with an amount.

    Day 23 – A Day Late and A Fish Short

    by Corbin

    Hello again! I return during this week of winter solstice to tell you about my experience participating in the Langjam Gamejam. I planned to use Raku, partially so that you could have an advent blogpost to read today, but also because Raku’s builtin support for grammars ensure that I would not get stuck when writingContinue reading “Day 23 – A Day Late and A Fish Short”

  • Day 22 – Numerically 2026 Is Unremarkable Yet Happy

    by Anton Antonov Antonov

    This document explores the properties and relationships of the integer 2026. It is classified as a semiprime and a happy number, with 365 serving as one of its primitive roots. While 2026 may not stand out significantly in number theory, it offers a great opportunity to create elaborate visualizations that highlight some interesting aspects of the number.

  • Day 21 – A Terminal’s Tale

    by patrickb

    Today’s story is about my naiveness and terminals. The original task is simple. Show the output of some program in a sub frame of a TUI application. (TUI == Text User Interface, i.e. apps like tmux, vim, k9s)For those that wonder, there is a yet to be finished TUI debugger application I’m working on, theContinue reading “Day 21 – A Terminal’s Tale”

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