About Raku

It may be difficult to find a programming language that is more expressive. Raku is a modern, multi-paradigm language. Raku offers procedural, object-oriented and functional programming methodologies.

Curious? Dig deeper in the documentation or the module repository (like pypi or CPAN).

It is a supremely flexible language, adapting to your style of programming, whether that be quick one­liners for sysadmins, scripts to manage a database import, or the full stack of modules necessary to realise an entire website.

Raku learns from other languages:

• It enhances Perl’s long­term appeal with a proper object system including roles, threading and multi­method dispatch.
• It's taking threading from Java - simplified to a handful of methods.
• Using foreign-function interfaces from Lisp makes accessing libraries as simple as one line of code.
• Regular expressions are now turned up to 11 - with the introduction of Parser Expression Grammars, which let you tackle huge parsing tasks.
• Strictures and warnings are now automatic, cutting out huge swathes of potential errors.
• ... and it knows how to do math: 1/10 * 3 == 0.3 - try that in your favorite language!

Raku’s mottos:

• "Raku is designed to make the easy jobs easy, without making the hard jobs impossible."
• "There Is More Than One Way To Do It - now with even more -Ofun (optimized for fun) added."