Programming: Ruby, GDB, Rakudo, and Rusticon

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2025

• Ruby ☛ Redesign our Site Identity

  We are excited to announce a comprehensive redesign of our site. The design for this update was created by Taeko Akatsuka.

  As part of this update, we have redesigned the site’s identity as “A language where people gather, a site where people are visible.”

  Ruby has been a language centered on “programmer happiness” for 30 years. The new key visual expresses the presence of people surrounding Ruby.

  The composition features diverse hand-drawn illustrated characters radiating outward from the central Ruby logo, representing developers around the world connecting through Ruby, creating value in their respective fields, and enjoying Ruby alongside familiar motifs.

• LWN ☛ GDB 17.1 released

  Version 17.1 of the GDB debugger is out. Changes include shadow-stack

  support, info threads improvements, a number of Python API

  improvements, and more, including: "Warnings and error messages now

  start with an emoji (warning sign, or cross mark) if supported by the host

  charset. Configurable." See the

  NEWS file for more information.

• Perl / Raku

  • Rakulang ☛ Rakudo Weekly 2025.51 Exemplar Poll Results

    Kudos to the Core Dev team for the release of 2025.12 in time for Christmas (more on this in the next issue) and many thanks to all the wonderful posts in this year’s Raku Advent. A few more to come.

• Rust

  • Linux Links ☛ Rusticon – favicon editor

    Rusticon is a mouse driven SVG favicon editor for your terminal.