Stefan Seifert reported on the completion of their RakuAST grant (/r/rakulang comments), describing to an extent all of the nooks and crannies of the Raku Programming Language that needed to be han…
One thing I’m a bit shaky on after reading both the rakudoweekly.blog post and nine’s personal blog report: was the RakuAST bootstrap effort fully completed?
The former seems to suggest there’s some more work that needs to be done to leverage it for an upcoming release, while the latter seems to suggest the work is done already.
It might just
I might just be misunderstanding, but if there’s still work needed to ensure that it the bootstrapped RakuAST front-end be used in a release, what would that entail?
You’re understanding correctly: there’s still some wrinkles to work out before there is a bootstrapped RakuAST front-end in a release. 2025.05 won’t have it.
One thing I’m a bit shaky on after reading both the rakudoweekly.blog post and nine’s personal blog report: was the RakuAST bootstrap effort fully completed?
The former seems to suggest there’s some more work that needs to be done to leverage it for an upcoming release, while the latter seems to suggest the work is done already.
It might just
I might just be misunderstanding, but if there’s still work needed to ensure that it the bootstrapped RakuAST front-end be used in a release, what would that entail?
You’re understanding correctly: there’s still some wrinkles to work out before there is a bootstrapped RakuAST front-end in a release. 2025.05 won’t have it.