raku IRC channel

Much real-time discussion happens on our IRC channel, "#raku" on irc.libera.chat. We try to be very nice to newcomers, so feel free to join us, and ask any Raku questions you might have.

#raku

We discuss questions about Raku, how to install a compiler, proposals for small enhancements to the specification, ideas for new modules - you name it.

If you don’t have an IRC client installed, you can use your browser to connect to IRC.

If you prefer to chat on Matrix, our matrix room is bridged with the IRC channels.

If you missed an interesting discussion on #raku - don’t worry, there are public logs available at irclogs.raku.org.

Bots

A variety of IRC bots make our life easier, here’s a short explanation of what they do - courtesy by frettled.

  • benchable An IRC bot for benchmarking code at a given commit of Rakudo. It can be addressed by its full name (‘benchable6’) or its short name (‘bench’). It will run the given code five times and return the minimum amount of time taken.
  • bisectable This bot is meant to help you find when something got broken. If you want to know if something has ever worked use Committable instead.
  • bloatable An IRC bot for running bloaty on libmoar.so files of MoarVM. It can be addressed by its full name (‘bloatable6’) or its short name (‘bloat’ or ‘bloaty’). It will run bloaty and pass one or more libmoar.so files from different revisions of MoarVM. buggable RT queue search and utility bot.
  • camelia Raku code evaluation bot. We use this for live testing of code that may be of interest to others; it chats back to the channel. raku: my $a; will result in a test against latest revisions of rakudo and niecza, nqp: say('foo') will test nqp, std: my $a will parse the expression using STD.pm6. For other compilers, try “camelia: help”.
  • committable An IRC bot for running code at a given commit of Rakudo. It can be addressed by its full name (‘committable6’) or its short names (‘commit’, ‘c’).
  • coverable An IRC bot for creating a coverage report of the Rakudo (and NQP) source lines that were hit while running the code you give it. The first option is the commit, the second (optional) option is the filter for what lines of the MoarVM-generated coverage log you want, the third is the code to run.
  • Geth Announces commits made to various projects relevant to Raku, such as implementations of Raku and some of the repositories owned by Raku.
  • dalek Used to be the commit announcer before Geth took over. Now it just lurks quietly, picking targets for extermination.
  • evalable Evalable is just Committable that defaults to HEAD.
  • greppable An IRC bot for grepping through the module ecosystem. It can be addressed by its full name (‘greppable6’) or its short name (‘grep’).
  • huggable Let’s you .hug people in the channel.
  • ilbot IRC logging bot.
  • nativecallable an IRC bot for generating Raku NativeCall code from C definitions. It can be addressed by its full name (’nativecallable6’) or its short name (’nativecall’). The bot is using App::GPTrixie to do the conversion.
  • quotable An IRC bot for searching messages in the IRC log. It can be addressed by its full name (‘quotable6’) or its short name (‘quote’).
  • releasable An IRC bot for getting information about the upcoming release. It can be addressed by its full name (‘releasable6’) or its short name (‘release’). As a user, you are probably only interested in its only command “status”. It tells when the next release is going to happen and how many blockers are there.
  • SourceBaby Core source code locator
  • squashable An IRC bot for the Monthly Bug Squash Day (a.k.a. Community Bug SQUASHathon). It can be addressed by its full name (‘squashable6’) or its short name (‘squash’). It can tell you when the next even is going to happen and what’s the current status of the active event. Also, it will also announce changes to the repo.
  • statisfiable An IRC bot that can gather stats across rakudo builds. It can be addressed by its full name (‘statisfiable6’) or its short name (‘stat’). For most commands it will reply with a gist that has a graph and the raw data. Note that stats are cached, but it takes some time for it to generate the graph, so be patient.
  • synopsebot6 Creates links to the synopses and turns mentions of RT ticket numbers into clickable RT links.
  • Undercover Very similar to SourceBaby, except points to https://wtf.rakudo.party/ indicating stresstest coverage of code.
  • unicodable An IRC bot for getting interesting information about Unicode characters. It can be addressed by its full name (‘unicodable6’) or its short name (‘u’).
  • yoleaux Provides various functions, such as leaving messages for people and translating text (see this handy reference for what yoleaux can do.)
  • PufferBot An IRC bot for testing builds of Rakudo on OpenBSD. It can be addressed by its full name (‘PufferBot’). Talks only in #raku-dev.
  • BeastieBot An IRC bot for testing builds of Rakudo on FreeBSD. It can be addressed by its full name (‘BeastieBot’). Talks only in #raku-dev.