Raku

“"I'm a Raku developer" makes one sound like someone with poor hygiene”

“designed to make common cases relatively easy to code and avoid pitfalls”

“Raku and Racket are language oriented novel programming languages. They may adapt more easy.”

“provide some degree of support, but their capabilities are incredibly basic”

“it's actually a pretty well-designed language, and supports multimethods and overloading”

“Raku regexes allow arbitrary whitespace, can contain comments and are composable.”

“A absolutely beautiful idea that sadly is not used widely (or even known widely)”

“Feels very expressive, like it will support any harebrained scheme you come up with.”

“fortunately Raku got enough stackoverflow and rosettacode content that it made the cut to be usable on LLMs”

“Larry (and the team) were much better at language design than project management.”

“being a hobby for a small number of true weirdos is the only way they could hope to fit into 2026”

“The main strength of Raku is its built in Grammars”

“it's a wonderful reimagining of all the great things of perl from all the community RFPs”

“Raku, as a Perl descendant is a giant toybox and there is no one telling you not to use them.”

“Perl 6 (now Raku) ended up taking a journey that fragmented the ecosystem”

“Perl6/Raku has built in grammers that can do that idiomatically.”

“Raku feels so expressive and lovely to me with the help of an AI assistant.”

“Raku is ideal for these aspects (esp with built in Grammars and general kitchen sink repartee)”

“It's fairly early days ... but a couple of other Raku community sites are taking it up.”

“Since Raku suports both OO and Functional coding styles, and has built in Grammars, it is very nice for DSLs.”

“why on earth do you go out of your way to add extra lines and complexity to the Python?”

“I have looked at Raku before but I find the syntax very foreign”

“I reject Raku out-of-hand simply since IMO the type should follow the variable name.”

“waiting for Raku (formerly perl6) to be built was like watching paint dry”

“intentionally designed as a braid of sub languages (slangs) for quoting, regex, PEG, etc”

“a strongly (but gradual) typed scripting language”

“has a lot of new magic symbology and lost what i thought was an intuitive way of regular expressions in Perl 5”

“Second-system effect poster boy. Sensationally dysfunctional community.”

“It is very expressive and loaded with features.”

“I think it is the best language to write DevOps (for lack of a better term) scripts.”

“It really gave me the perception that they were rudderless and that Perl probably had no future.”

“It pulled away folks who would otherwise have spent time improving Perl 5”

“the Perl community also got tired of waiting such a long time for what is now Raku”

“they should have accepted that the existing community was already the largest subset of programmers that could embrace Perl's trade-offs”

“It's honestly a beautiful and seductive language. At the same time it terrifies me.”

“Raku has built in Grammars so it is a great place to do early iteration of your parser”

“From my perspective one of the several _strengths_ of Raku's sigils is that they combine succinct compile time type constraints and composition.”

“The problem with sigils is that they compose poorly when casting (refs, counts)”

“it really helps code to be written in an expressive way to better convey the intent”

“Perhaps it’s because, in Raku, precision, performance and determinism take a back seat to expediency.”