Raku Repositories Report

Listed below are the 50 most recently updated issues on GitHub for a selection of core Raku repositories.

A project for Raku Advent Calendar 2024.

Report generated 2025-11-02T07:16:26.652896Z via cron.

raku/doc-website

Most recent issues (show/hide)

Extra horizontal padding on inline code

OPEN

Eliminate ␤ from sample OUTPUT

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Run and Edit examples

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//= not easy to find in docs

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Website rebuild

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Syntax highlighting - eyes needed

OPEN

Search Box Improvements

OPEN

Pin Dependency Versions

OPEN

Exact match in search should be prioritized.

OPEN

Raku Recipes missing

CLOSED

"Introduction" page insufficiently awesome

OPEN

serving the website using Cro rather than Caddy

CLOSED

code highlighting issue on e.g. $tuple<>, angle brackets differ in color

OPEN

Robots.txt impacting search results

CLOSED

Is the announcement page useful??

CLOSED

proof of concept up and running

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returning to 'credits'

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Variables headings missing

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Entire site is unreadable/unusable on mobile browsers

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Doc Generation Issue with Formatting Tags

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How much to include in a Composite?

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Issues with popup - contrast, usability, history

OPEN

replacing the way Typegraphs are generated

OPEN

New guidance on trademark

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Error page

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Extraneous text on generated page.

CLOSED

Sentence fragments: 'See primary documentation...'

CLOSED

Add install graph-viz to install instructions

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Pod documentation that use :allow< > does not highlight as Raku code but as Pod

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Incorrect syntax highlighting

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Some coloring for syntax is weird

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Inconsistent font size in code samples

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Cannot find any information on using the Build.rakumod module

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Anchors being generated in the wrong place

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Error report incorrectly errors on https://docs.raku.org/type/Cool#typegraphrelations

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error report external link check is disabled

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error report doesn't indicate when it was run

CLOSED

JS error

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Generate sqlite output from RakuDoc source input

OPEN

How much information should be in Table of contents?

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E-Book design - initial design

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Code example boxes narrowed by descriptor

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Search sidebar UI bug

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Reducing Build time from 13min to 3min

OPEN

Dark mode does not auto switch

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searching for slurp isn't great

CLOSED

Add modification data for source files

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Documentation Bug: Heading link doesn't work

CLOSED

add redirect for /language/independent-routine

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Search methods through class hierarchy

OPEN

raku/doc

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Document the behavior of `try` and `$!` if no Exception is thrown

OPEN

Eliminate use of dd in sample code

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heading 'routine' definition 'method'

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@-sigiled options are not documented for `sub MAIN`

CLOSED

`code :allow<…>` not working as intended

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Error in the docs for `unit` declarator

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sub MAIN needs better examples

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Wording and clarification on the "Object orientation" page

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Checklist for 2025.10

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checklist for 2025.08

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checklist for 2025.06

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Improve, in general, documentation about TWEAK

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Decide which methods should be documented

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Make the role of "leap seconds" more obvious in DateTime and Instant

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Ad hock exceptions are not documented well enough.

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Not Documented: DateTime's two julian-date methods silently discard timezone data

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Clarify ;; in signatures

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Sort Table of Contents

OPEN

Decide what to do with perl5/perl6 in filenames

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Check for indexing marks that try to index the page they're in

CLOSED

Track Deprecations

OPEN

Tidy up `Distribution::Resource`

CLOSED

Heading/Category Dupes

CLOSED

`IO::Path::succ()` should not suggest example with potential pitfall.

CLOSED

sleep, sleep-until, & sleep-timer are under Date but belong elsewhere

CLOSED

checklist for 2024.08

OPEN

Allow localization of the documentation

CLOSED

`Supply.batch(:timed-emit)` not documented

CLOSED

Example code for `andthen` docs occasionally returns error: `Attempt to return outside of any Routine`

CLOSED

use https://github.com/niner/CompUnit-Repository-Mask to run more examples

OPEN

Add Signal as a class

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extending the documentation of DEPRECATED

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Distribution::Resource is not documented

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Returns signature check gets Nil, skip or run

CLOSED

Special platform-independent handling of 'libraries/' resource hard to find

CLOSED

zef should be in docs

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Mention App::Mi6 and the like in the modules section

CLOSED

Seeing all Unicode glyphs / characters

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Document return type of method round(Real:D: $scale = 1)

CLOSED

Document REPL history variables?

CLOSED

Type signature for `Pair` methods are out of date

OPEN

xt/check_signatures.t doesn't report on /IO/Handle#method_chomp

OPEN

lazy-if does not appear to be documented

CLOSED

Avoid repetitions in documentation

OPEN

Need a practical example of a "subtest" with a loop

CLOSED

“plan *” missing.

CLOSED

Some problems in 101 basics

CLOSED

(Maybe) Document DUMP?

CLOSED

Create a document revision tool

CLOSED

Unexplained Symbols

CLOSED

raku/nqp

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nqp-2025.03 FTBFS on Musl libc

CLOSED

2024.08 is broken now: NQPCORE.setting fails to build

CLOSED

[JVM] nqp::null as value for class attribute is changed to NQPMu after serialization+deserialization

CLOSED

Failing to build javascript backend

OPEN

`nqp::isnum` returns 0 for everything Rakudo considers a `Num`

CLOSED

NQP README instructions unclear

CLOSED

nqp::iterator on lists is slower than manually indexing into lists

OPEN

question / offer: build GitHub workflow based NQP releases

OPEN

Rakudo's install-dist.p6 fails with

CLOSED

[JVM] Using back-references with aliases dies with internal error

CLOSED

Unhandled exception: lang-call cannot invoke object of type 'VMNull' belonging to no language

CLOSED

CI pipeline is broken

OPEN

$brackets definition in HLL::Grammar has duplicate bracket pairs

CLOSED

063-slurp test file

CLOSED

jvm: unhandled exception

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Building inside a chroot fails with "Unhandled exception: All positional args must appear first"

CLOSED

Compilation fails on macOS 13

CLOSED

[2022.12/arm64] segmentation fault during Creating stage 2 NQP

OPEN

[JVM] Several opcodes for string (e.g. chars, substr*) work on Java's chars (UTF-16) instead of graphemes

OPEN

Implement NFG on JVM

OPEN

There's still a good deal of `perl6` in this repo

OPEN

NQP grammar doesn't seem to work on its own

CLOSED

t/nqp/19-file-ops.t failure in pre-2016.01

OPEN

Flagged as vulnerable

CLOSED

try and die can cause infinite loop under some rare condition

OPEN

Random failures of t/concurrency/01-thread.t

CLOSED

Can't build against externally-built moar backend (with patch)

CLOSED

need simple examples of using QAST inside nqp programs

OPEN

Parse error when a '<.panic(' ending '>' is moved to the next line

CLOSED

NQP sometimes throws a segmentation fault at build time

CLOSED

No notification by any IRC bot when an issue is filed

OPEN

Test

CLOSED

Bunch of things undocumented

OPEN

Opcode test coverage needs improving

OPEN

Issues with CI

CLOSED

Configure appveyor to test nqp builds on windows

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nqp lacks automated testing on OSX environment

CLOSED

Local '__lowered_lex....' already declared when compiling NQP

CLOSED

implement nqp::nativecallglobal for jvm

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hllboolfor op SEGVs

CLOSED

Can't override class's Numeric

OPEN

[JVM] nqp::attrinited does not work for natives

OPEN

Encoding a string as utf16 to buffer containing 8 bit integers is broken on the JVM

OPEN

Inconsistent signature for &MAIN

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There is no way to distinguish a non-existing symbol from one bound to VMnull

OPEN

Build fails on MoarVM: "Cannot find method 'new' on object of type Archetypes"

CLOSED

[JVM] Java limit for method code size can be hit by defining large hashes

OPEN

Please include nqp-configure in the release tarballs

OPEN

nqp::split should allow for boxing type

OPEN

test

CLOSED

rakudo/rakudo

Most recent issues (show/hide)

Literal return constraint versus .return

OPEN

TEST_JOBS ignored in akefile

CLOSED

`Seq`s that aren't sunk, will not run

OPEN

Reduce by hyper + doesn't work as expected

OPEN

Match against (malformed) RE / <![a]>* / hangs

OPEN

Defining a custom postcircumfix operator causes multi-second hang

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Last expression of TWEAK/BUILD methods not sunk on object instantiation

OPEN

[RFE] Detect (and reject) more null regex patterns and/or don't generate them

OPEN

Show diagnostic for malformed stub class

OPEN

Compiler should error on predefined char class in regex with leading colon

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Allow retrieval of Native Type

OPEN

Raku Signature not able to generate a method signature

OPEN

Regex quantifier with {} doesn't match the correct number of characters in some cases

OPEN

RakuAST: Type smilies not entirely supported

OPEN

LTA error message "Undeclared routine" rather than "Two terms in a row" from dropped comma on say hash

OPEN

`FIRST LAST say 123` - what is the expected behavior?

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Regex hang - enormous memory consumption

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Binding list to variable with `@' sigil doesn't survive export/import

OPEN

MoarVM panic from race return

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`use` statement when improperly terminated gives difficult-to-interpret error message

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[grammar] .Hash method chain with newline

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Rakudo incorrectly calls methods on Match subclasses (eg Grammars) instead of on Match itself

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role-constrained variable does not accept derived role defined inline

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`trait_mod:<is>(Routine:D, |)` is called on the proto, not the candidate

OPEN

allowed useless use of `with`

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Scope messing with custom ops in EVAL

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`No such method 'IO' for invocant of type 'VMNull'` when undefined variable used in require

OPEN

ms/ / should be DEPRECATED

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Unhelpful error message for typed constant attempt

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multi dispatch optimizer bug with str vs Str candidates

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[optimization] Bad argument being passed into multi candidate

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Lazy list ACCEPTS any non-iterable

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Circularity detected when adding a constraint to an `&infix:<+>` candidate

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Request to undeprecate Pair .freeze

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$?FILE.IO.absolute incorrectly reports module names

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Anomaly of named parameter placed after a capture

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'quietly my $_ ' is noisy

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Can't override multi method from role

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`BEGIN my int $foo` ==> "Lexical with name '$foo' has wrong type."

OPEN

is built can't set argument name

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Cannot parse an anonymous sigilless parameter with a trait

OPEN

Iterator-related operators given Proxy not very reliable

OPEN

The .= operator doesn't work for subscripts

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Semicolon-separated subscripting gives weird results instead of Whatever-currying

OPEN

RX and RZ not parsed properly

OPEN

Surprising behaviour of pairs inside qq:ww

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Exported terms don't alter the grammar in which they're imported

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[ && ]( True, False ) - LTA error message or place for improvement?

OPEN

Role group nonsignatured candidate typechecks go too deep

OPEN

Unexpected behavior with `where` clause in `MAIN` on a named argument

OPEN

moarvm/moarvm

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Reasonable (?) redispatch generates "Cannot replace capture argument with different kind"

OPEN

Request to pull updated dyncall

OPEN

[Snyk] Double Free

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[Snyk] Double Free

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Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

CLOSED

Add support for num16 and num8

OPEN

libtommath CVE

OPEN

Build failure on Alpine due to mimalloc update

CLOSED

Support TCP half-closed in Async sockets

OPEN

Segfault in MVM_spesh_log_return_type

OPEN

Segfault, probably spesh related

OPEN

MoarVM Panic - OO - CONTROL Phaser

CLOSED

Reliable MoarVM panic in rakuast branch: Heap corruption detected

OPEN

MoarVM panic: Internal error: invalid thread ID <some-random-ID> in GC work pass

CLOSED

SEGV during a --profile

CLOSED

ABRT when using --full-cleanup

OPEN

MoarVM panic when profiling an EVAL that fails

OPEN

SEGV when attempting to --profile-stage=optimize the Rakudo build

OPEN

No MoarVM syscall with name 'file-stat'

CLOSED

MoarVM panics on arrays with bigint indices

OPEN

2025.01 tarball from releases is broken and does not extract: `gnutar: Archive value is out of time_t range`

CLOSED

The version scheme of the extracted folder from release artifact is differ

CLOSED

MoarVM panic with CONTROL block

CLOSED

uv.lib(util.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime

OPEN

Builds of master are failing lately when building the nightly container

CLOSED

tools/release.sh using Perl

OPEN

2024.08 release: MoarVM fails to compile NQP on powerpc

CLOSED

Frequent heap corruption

OPEN

gh release workflow is broken

CLOSED

segmentation fault on parallel code

CLOSED

Segmentation Fault in Rakudo While Running Project w/ Cro and DB::MySQL

OPEN

Internals MoarVM Error messages are LTA

OPEN

MoarVM panic: Internal error

CLOSED

(should have been for rakudo instead ? , sorry ) make package asks for install-dist.p6, rename from *.raku may have not been working correctly,

CLOSED

Spesh issue when `.gist`ing a `Seq`

CLOSED

$*IN.close breaks shell/run on macOS

OPEN

Expression JIT maybe missing GC check at backbranch

CLOSED

Intermittent failure when running S17-supply/return-in-tap.t

OPEN

MSVC builds broken in Windows 11 SDK 10.0.26100.0 due to NAN / INFINITY no longer being compile-time constant

CLOSED

Should the header files have include guards?

OPEN

Meson build system

OPEN

Possible CVE in third party

CLOSED

Some sort of SPESH issue

CLOSED

Segmentation Fault in rakudo 2016.08.1-55-gb1c444f built on MoarVM version 2016.08

CLOSED

Numification fails with non-ascii strings.

CLOSED

VS2015 jitbug - stack overflow when building rakudo CORE.setting

CLOSED

SEGV due to spesh logging?

CLOSED

perl6 native call libgsl segmentation fault

CLOSED

JIT issue with new version of .flat

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Bundled `libuv`-related bug: `fs.c: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'int (const uv__dirent_t *)' (aka 'int (const struct dirent *)') to parameter of type 'int (*)(struct dirent *)'`

OPEN