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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 14, 2022
> If you are on the market for the best programming languages, you want the best paying to recoup your money and set the pace for the future.
> KDE is now evaluating Sentry, a crash tracking system.
> Who can get access? Everyone with a KDE developer account.
> But what is it?
> A few months ago, I had a bit of a scare with a notebook showing signs of going nuclear (as in batteries growing up to about 3x their original size, dislodging the bottom plate). In the end, all turned out well, thanks to iFixit, patience and a steady hand.
> Not wanting to install Perl's ack utility on a clean temporary machine, made me write an alpha version of a Raku module App::Rak, providing a similar utility: the rak CLI. Which I presented at the second Raku Conference: Looking for clues with rak.
> Since then, the utility has seen two refactors: the first one was taking out the "plumbing" functionality into a separate module. The second one was rewriting the argument handling (now up to 135 options) to make it easier to produce better error messages, and to make it more maintainable. And now it's at what I would like to think as "beta version" level.
> This blog post provides an introduction to the Raku Programmming Language and its grep functionality. It does not require any specific knowledge about the Raku Programming Language, although being familiar with basic grep functionality (of the unix utility), is recommended.
> The grep functionality comes in two flavours in Raku: a procedural (sub) version, and an object oriented (method) version. Since everything in Raku is an object (or can be thought of as one), and I personally mostly prefer the object oriented way, I will be discussing only the method way of using grep and friends.
> It is early fall in the northern hemisphere, and with that not only do the leaves drop, but also a new Qt for Python release!
> Perhaps you were wondering why the release was not on the same day as Qt?: It was a mixture of CI not liking our configurations, conferences happening during the release, and COVID affecting 50% of the team. Now, everything is working well, and most of us have recovered.
> Here’s my (thirty-fifth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.
> [...]
> This was my 19th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there’s a bunch of things I do! \o/
> This month’s release was a bit delayed due to the fact that most of FEX-Emu’s developers were meeting up physically at the X.Org Developer’s Conference this year! Before we talk about this months changes we need to spend a bit of time talking about some cool things.
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