Making of Raku Developer
summary
Begins learning Raku in 2017 and converts a Perl maze into a published Raku module games::maze released on Dec 17, 2019, with working tests and packaging. Regularly submits weekly-challenge solutions from Feb 2020, demonstrating specific features: string .flip, ++ on Date, multi dispatch and multi subs, method chaining, signature parameter validation, angle-bracket regex, and using grep with named $/. Shows compact one-liners and a class-based implementation, documents gotchas and incremental fixes learned from the community.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction to journey
- 1:27First encounter with Raku
- 3:33Meeting Raku community
- 7:10First Raku presentation
- 8:38Raku Advent Calendar contribution
- 10:03Weekly Challenge in Raku
- 13:35Raku one-liners beauty
- 17:06Multis in Raku
- 18:54Regex in Raku
- 20:41Chaining methods in Raku
- 23:55Creating Raku class
- 26:05Raku module for maze game
- 27:51Learning and community support
- 28:55Q&A and future goals
