This release focuses on Unicode handling improvements and internationalization support.

It's back again, please join us for an exciting informative one day event.

by Jason A. Crome (CROMEDOME)

Dancer2 2.0.1 has been released. It's a small maintenance release that fixes a few broken documentation links.

After 12 year hiatus, the Perl IDE Developer Survey has returned! Please do take part in the survey.

by Marcontk

The article is valuable and motivational, especially for people in the Perl community who feel Perl has had less representation in data science / notebooks / ML. It shows convincingly that the building blocks exist and invites people to experiment.

by Federico Cagliero

This article is inspiring and helpful, in my opinion. Anyone in the Perl community (or nearby) who wants to be reminded of Perl's modern capabilities and feel that it is still relevant should read it.

by Lukas Mai (MAUKE)

Binary Golf Grand Prix is an annual small file format competition, currently in it's sixth year. The goal is to make the smallest possible file that fits the criteria of the challenge.

by Saif Uddin Ahmed (SAIFTYNET)

Excellent technical writing - accessible deep knowledge, strong literary craft, authentic developer humor and clearly rooted in the Perl ecosystem.

by kobaken

Test2::Plugin::SubtestFilter released for Perl tests, which allows filtering test targets by subtest name, similar to --testNamePattern in jest and vitest.

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Peak Positions" and "Last Visitor". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ.

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

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

by Ali Moradi

This blog post successfully guides the reader through the process of resolving two programming challenges and is technically sound and well-written. It exhibits sound coding techniques and strong problem-solving abilities. The main strength of the post is its easy-to-understand, step-by-step explanation style, which makes it suitable for programmers of all skill levels.

by Arne Sommer

The post is well structured and easy to follow, introducing the challenge clearly and then solving it step by step. It uses clean, idiomatic Raku, showcasing native language strengths like permutations, MAIN signature validation and concise array/string transformations. The solutions are compact yet readable, demonstrating how expressive Raku can be for problems that would be verbose in other languages.

by Bob Lied

The post provides a clear, correct and well-structured solution using backtracking. It balances readability with reasonable efficiency for small to medium-sized inputs.

by Jaldhar H. Vyas

This is a brief and useful article that emphasizes offering practical solutions with little fanfare. The author demonstrates a get-it-done mentality by using a "one-liner" approach for the first problem and a simple brute-force permutation strategy for the second. The review will draw attention to some crucial scalability and robustness considerations, even though the solutions are functionally correct for the examples provided.

by Jorg Sommrey

The blog post provides clear, concise and idiomatic Perl solutions to the week 344 tasks. The post provides multiple examples for each task, covering various scenarios and edge cases. This helps readers understand the problem's nuances and test their solutions effectively.

by Luca Ferrari

The post is excellent as an educational and practical demonstration of Raku for these algorithmic challenges. It leverages Raku’s expressive features well amd for small to medium inputs, the solutions work effectively.

by W Luis Mochan

This is a sophisticated and well-engineered set of solutions that demonstrates deep expertise in Perl, particularly with the Perl Data Language (PDL). It provides multiple approaches for each task, showing a thorough understanding of different algorithmic strategies and their trade-offs. The code is professional, robust and well-documented.

by Matthias Muth

This is a superb example of production-quality thinking that goes far beyond typical challenge solutions. Matthias demonstrates exceptional foresight in identifying edge cases and designing scalable, robust algorithms.

by Packy Anderson (PACKY)

This technical blog post is incredibly well-written and captivating. It effectively achieves its main objective, which is to guide the reader through a challenging programming problem while elucidating the reasoning behind it, its dead ends and its elegant solution. In technical writing, it's the ideal illustration of "show your work".

by Peter Campbell Smith

In the great majority of real-world use cases, this solution accurately resolves the issue and is clear, practical and effective. It creates a sophisticated one-liner by utilizing Perl's advantages in handling strings and numbers. The fundamental requirement of the problem—converting between array and numerical representations—is clearly understood by Peter.

by Robbie Hatley

For the examples provided, Robbie offers two workable solutions that accurately address the challenge problems. The solutions are straightforward and practical, prioritizing clarity and simplicity over scalability or optimization for edge cases. The code has a clear structure and useful documentation.

by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE)

This blog post goes beyond standard challenge solutions and is incredibly intelligent and sophisticated. In addition to solving the problems, Roger delves into complex computer science ideas and skillfully makes connections between the two seemingly unconnected tasks. The post exhibits expert-level understanding of functional programming paradigms, algorithms and programming language theory.

by Simon Green

This explanation of the Weekly Challenge solutions is clear, easy to understand and useful. Beginners and intermediate developers will find Simon's conversational, tutorial-like style especially approachable. The article emphasizes readability and direct problem-solving over algorithmic optimization, with a focus on concise, practical Perl solutions.

by Vinod Kumar K

These are clean, practical and clever solutions that demonstrate excellent Perl idioms and pragmatic problem-solving. Vinod favors simplicity and readability while leveraging Perl's unique strengths effectively.

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great CPAN modules released last week.

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