Perl Weekly #657 - Perl Toolchain Summit in 2024
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Published: 2024-02-26 06:28:04

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Originally published at [Perl Weekly 657](https://perlweekly.com/archive/657.html)


Hi There!

As the newsletter goes out to more than 4,000 people I often get back vacation notifications. Most of them are in English, but there are a few that are in some other language. I assume the local language of where that person works. A few of them are both in English and in the local language.  Usually a language  that I don't fully understand. I can guess and I can use an automated translator, but it seems it would make sense for these messages to include an English version as well.

Apparently we missed the <a href="https://blogs.perl.org/users/book/2024/02/announcing-the-perl-toolchain-summit-in-2024.html">announcement of the Perl Toolchain Summit</a>. In 2024 it will be in Lisbon, Portugal, from Wednesday April 25 to Sunday April 28. They are looking for sponsors.

Enjoy your week!

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  Your editor: Gabor Szabo.


## Announcements

  
### [Announcing the Perl Toolchain Summit in 2024!](https://blogs.perl.org/users/book/2024/02/announcing-the-perl-toolchain-summit-in-2024.html)



  
### [perl 5.39.8 released](https://metacpan.org/release/RENEEB/perl-5.39.8/view/pod/perldelta.pod)



  
### [Nominate heroes for the 2024 White Camel Awards ](https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/white-camel-2024-nominations)



  

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## Articles

  
### [Convert Markdown to HTML](https://perlmaven.com/convert-markdown-to-html)

A small example by yours truly.

  
### [The present isn't evenly distributed either](https://perlhacks.com/2024/02/the-present-isnt-evenly-distributed-either/)

Personally I think that removing CGI.pm from the standard Perl wasn't a good idea. IT went against the philosophy of backward compability without providing an alternative in the core. On the other hand having (yet another) place that tries to promote newer web-technologies is a good idea.

  
### [What makes YAPC::Japan unique](https://blogs.perl.org/users/makoto_nozaki/2024/02/what-makes-yapcjapan-unique.html)

Worth a read for anyone who wants to organize Perl-related events.

  
### [How to use zlib (a C library) from Perl with SPVM](https://dev.to/yukikimoto/how-to-use-zlib-a-c-library-from-perl-with-spvm-4dko)



  

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## Discussion

  
### [Perl in 2024](https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1avrsix/perl_in_2024/)

As of 2024, what are the most innovative and practical applications of Perl in today's tech landscape?

  

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## Grants

  
### [Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): November - December 2023](https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/maintaining_perl_dave_mitchell_november_december_2023)



  

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## Perl

  
### [This Week in PSC (137) | 2024-02-22](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2024/02/this-week-in-psc-137-2024-02-22.html)



  

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## The Weekly Challenge
<a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org">The Weekly Challenge</a> by <a href="https://manwar.org">Mohammad Sajid Anwar</a> will help you step out of your comfort-zone. We pick one champion at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month.
  
### [The Weekly Challenge - 258](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-258)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Count Even Digits Number" and "Sum of Values". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/faq">FAQ</a>.

  
### [RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 257](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/recap-challenge-257)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Smaller than Current" and " Reduced Row Echelon" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

  
### [Currently Reduced](https://raku-musings.com/currently-reduced.html)

As always we got some cool features of map and grep in Raku. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

  
### [Lesser, Inferior, Lower, Junior](https://jacoby.github.io/2024/02/19/lesser-inferior-lower-junior-weekly-challenge-257.html)

Use of map and grep together can be lethal and produce compact solution. Keep it up great work.

  
### [Use of PDL always amazed me. Well done and keep it up.](https://github.sommrey.de/the-bears-den/2024/02/23/ch-257.html)



  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 257: Smaller than Current](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/02/perl-weekly-challenge-257-smaller-than-current.html)

Job can be done without any gimmicks. The end result is simple and easy to follow. Thanks for the contributions.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 257: Reduced Row Echelon](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2024/02/perl-weekly-challenge-257-reduced-row-echelon.html)

I noticed the use of Inf in Raku. Checkout the details if you are Raku fan.

  
### [Post-Valentine Challenge](https://fluca1978.github.io/2024/02/19/PerlWeeklyChallenge257.html)

Raku is very good at creating one-liner for search and lookup job. You would be surprise to see the result. Well done.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 257](https://wlmb.github.io/2024/02/20/PWC257/)

Perl one-liner with the help of CPAN module. You should checkout this post if you are one-liner fan.

  
### [Smaller and reduced](http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/257)

Simply love the task analysis and going beyond the comfort zone. Thank you for the detailed post.

  
### [Smaller than Echelon](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_257__Smaller_than_Echelon.html)

Blogging style is very handy if you are dealing with long solution. This week luck language was Scala and Raku. Highly recommended.

  
### [The current echelon](https://dev.to/simongreennet/the-current-echelon-33gn)

A simple comparison of Perl and Python approach. Good to see both on the same page.

  

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## Weekly collections

  
### [NICEPERL's lists](http://niceperl.blogspot.com/)

<a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2024/02/cdlxxxiv-9-great-cpan-modules-released.html">Great CPAN modules released last week</a>;

  

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