Perl Weekly #638 - Dancing Perl?
Tags: perl, news, programming
Published: 2023-10-16 07:33:57

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Originally published at [Perl Weekly 638](https://perlweekly.com/archive/638.html)


Hi there,

What a great and pleasant surprise announcement of the release of <a href="https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2023/10/announcing-dancer2-100.html">Dancer2 1.0.0</a> by the <strong>Dancer Core Team</strong> !!!

I am a big fan of <strong>Dancer2</strong>, so I follow closely the development of my favourite web framework. If you remember there was another announcement recently about change in the core team as <a href="https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2023/09/announcing-dancer-core-team-changes.html">Ruth Holloway</a> joining the core team. I am very happy that it is in safe hand and actively developed/maintained by the core team.

The <strong>Hacktoberfest 2023</strong> is still going on. Have you done the minimum pull request required to complete the challenge? If not then you still have time to do. Please make sure you submit your pull request before the deadline i.e. last day of the month. In the year <strong>2019</strong>, I managed to submit <strong>160 pull requests</strong> in one month. Unfortunately for the last couple of years, I haven't participated in the event because of other commitments.

Do you want to play with <strong>AI</strong>? Luckily we have <a href="https://chatgpu.ai/pages/navi-ai">Navi AI</a>. I strongly recommend, you give it a go.

Last but not the least, let us all pray for the peace in both sides of the conflicts. I don't watch news these days as they are full of heart breaking news.

Enjoy the rest of the newsletter.

  --
  Your editor: Mohammad S. Anwar.


## Announcements

  
### [Announcing Dancer2 1.0.0](https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/)

Latest release of Dancer2 now following semantic versioning. Jason shared the details of latest release.

  
### [This week in PSC (120)](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/10/this-week-in-psc-120.html)

PSC shared the topics last discussed. Thank you PSC.

  

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## Articles

  
### [Bitcoin::Crypto version 2.000 released!](https://bbrtj.eu/blog/article/bitcoin-crypto-2-released)

Are you Bitcoin fan? Then this is for you, do checkout.

  
### [pushover.net](https://github.com/hightowe/pushover-notify)

A simple command-line Pushover.net notifier script, written in Perl

  

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## The Weekly Challenge
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### [The Weekly Challenge - 239](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-239)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks: "Same String" and "Consistent Strings". If you are new to the weekly challenge, 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 - 238](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/recap-challenge-238)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Running Sum" and "Persistence Sort" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

  
### [Meet The Champion - Robbie Hatley](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/meet-the-champion-2023-09/)

Please checkout the interview with the latest champion of The Weekly Challenge.

  
### [TWC238](https://deadmarshal.blogspot.com/2023/10/twc238.html)

CPAN is always handy when it comes for regular use. The end result is compact and concise.

  
### [Persistently Running](https://raku-musings.com/persistently-running.html)

The cool use of map in Raku, although gather/take could do the job. Plenty of choices available for you in Raku.

  
### [Running Sum, or "I ♥️ Recursion”"](https://variousandsundry.com/running-sum-or-i-love-recursion/)

For first time, I would say this is worth checking. Lots of interesting thing for you to take a look.

  
### [Persistence Sort, In Which I Give Up and Use a Global](https://variousandsundry.com/persistence-sort-in-which-i-give-up-and-use-a-global/)

Recusion seems to be more apt for this task as suggested in the blog post. Well structured post, I must admit.

  
### [Running and Persistence](https://dev.to/boblied/pwc-238-running-and-persistence-4kla)

What an inspiration story to begin the blog post, thanks for sharing.

  
### [You Can't Touch This!](https://jacoby.github.io/2023/10/09/you-cant.html)

Interesting fact about 238, very impressive. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 238](https://www.braincells.com/perl/2023/10/perl_weekly_challenge_week_238.html)

Raku once again showing off the cool features. Please checkout the elegant one-liner.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 238: Running Sum](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/10/perl-weekly-challenge-238-running-sum.html)

Use of reduction meta-operator in Raku and smilar a;ternate in Perl. Highly recommended.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 238: Persistence Sort](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/10/perl-weekly-challenge-238-persistence-sort.html)

Having Raku and Perl solutions side-by-side is fun and easy way to learn the tricks. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [THE WEEKLY CHALLENGE - 238](https://egroup.kolouch.org/nextcloud/sites/lubos/2023-10-09_Weekly_challenge_238)

Perl and Raku can be so similar doing the same task. Even Python is not far. Keep sharing the knowledge every week.

  
### [running sums and multiplications](https://fluca1978.github.io/2023/10/09/PerlWeeklyChallenge238.html)

What a surprise, we got Python for the first time. No wonder, it is the most popular choice after Perl and Raku.

  
### [Master of one-liner in Perl is once again sharing another masterpiece. Keep it up great work.](https://wlmb.github.io/2023/10/09/PWC238/)



  
### [Reduced Arrays, Reduced Numbers, Reduced Code](https://github.com/manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club/tree/master/challenge-238/matthias-muth#readme)

Nice to know about two cool functions 'reduce' and 'reductions' from List::Utils. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [Be Runnin’ Up That Sum, Be Persisten’ Up That Sort](https://packy.dardan.com/2023/10/09/be-runnin-up-that-sum-be-persisten-up-that-sort/)

You are presented with different ways of dealing a task. Highly recommended.

  
### [Running persistence](http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/238)

Simple yet elegant solution with cool interface to try it yourself. Thank you.

  
### [The Weekly Challenge #238](https://hatley-software.blogspot.com/2023/10/robbie-hatleys-solutions-to-weekly_9.html)

Short and precise description of Perl solutions by the latest champion.

  
### [Running Persistence](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2023/10/The_Weekly_Challenge_238__Running_Persistence.html)

Variable free solution in PostScript? Well it is new to me. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

  
### [Counting and sorting](https://dev.to/simongreennet/counting-and-sorting-4136)

Use of lambda in Python is fun. Even the Perl magic is worth checking.

  

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## Rakudo

  
### [2023.41 Free In Three](https://rakudoweekly.blog/2023/10/09/2023-41-free-in-three/)



  

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## Weekly collections

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

<a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2023/10/cdlxv-9-great-cpan-modules-released.html">Great CPAN modules released last week</a>.

  

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