lizmat
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Comment · 14 days ago
If you're using Python, you may be in luck: https://andrewshitov.com/2026/10/03/using-raku-in-python/ which specifically shows using Raku grammars / action in Python.
Comment · 18 days ago
Oops, should read better, thanks for the nudge!
Comment · 18 days ago
Raku++ is *not* vibecoding: see https://dev.to/andrewshitov/comment/3gij4
Comment · 18 days ago
Not true: you can use the unicode equivalent as well:
say 42 ≤ 666; # True
say 42 ≠ 666; # True
say 42 ≥ 666; # False
For a full list, see https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_ascii#Other_acceptabl...
Comment · 3 months ago
Perl to Raku guide - in a nutshell: https://docs.raku.org/language/perl-nutshell
Perl to Raku guide - operators: https://docs.raku.org/language/perl-op
Perl to Raku guide - functions: https://docs.raku.org/language/perl-func
Comment · 3 months ago
or
raku -e 'say "etbjxntqrdke".comb.map(*.succ).join'
Comment · 4 months ago
* No separate types of bytestrings versus sequences of unicode codepoints.
Fixed in Raku. You either have a string (Str) or a bytestream (Blob).
* Wherever there's strings in any non-trivially-sized real-word Perl 5 project, there is utter irreversible and irredeemable mojibake.
No mojibake in Raku.
* No canonical way to do object-orientation. (cf. blessed objects, Moo in different versions, and different conventions around how to use them) -- This stuff should be easy in 2026. Perl makes this easy thing really hard.
Raku has single object / type system.
* Regexes suck. Their brevity is a nice circus stunt for a computer science audience, but unless you follow very particular patterns for composing them from ergonomically named constants, etc. etc. (which "in the wild" I rarely see), they are very unergonomic.
Raku regexes allow arbitrary whitespace, can contain comments and are composable.
Grammars are collections of tokens / rules / regexes that can be used to build an AST, and actions that can take that AST and build another data structure of it. A grammar is used to parse Raku itself.
Grammars can be subclassed or have rules / regexes mixed in (slangs).
* The Perl 5/CPAN ecosystem has been left to rot and is no longer safe for consumption.
The Raku ecosystem, albeit much smaller, is growing and actively maintained: https://raku.land
Comment · 4 months ago
And the original blog post from almost a year ago: https://dev.to/lizmat/towards-a-raku-foundation-3ne2
Comment · 4 months ago
From a blog post, to a problem solving issues, to passing a lot of hurdles: The Raku Foundation is here!
Comment · 7 months ago
The Rakudo implementation of the Raku Programming Language uses the MoarVM, which is pretty much a generic VM. All you need to do(TM) is write a grammar and associated actions to build the right bytecode out of the given Python source.
Comment · 8 months ago
It also goes from source code to AST:
$ raku -e 'say Q|say "Hello World!"|.AST'
RakuAST::StatementList.new(
RakuAST::Statement::Expression.new(
expression => RakuAST::Call::Name::WithoutParentheses.new(
name => RakuAST::Name.from-identifier("say"),
args => RakuAST::ArgList.new(
RakuAST::QuotedString.new(
segments => (
RakuAST::StrLiteral.new("Hello World!"),
)
)
)
)
)
)Comment · 8 months ago
> In the raku example, what if the elements were to be multiplied?
$ raku -e 'say (0, 1, 2, * × * ... )[^10]' # for readability (0 1 2 2 4 8 32 256 8192 2097152)
$ raku -e 'say (0, 1, 2, * * ... *)[^10]' # for typeability (0 1 2 2 4 8 32 256 8192 2097152)
Comment · 9 months ago
Nothing stopping you from creating a L10N::LA module :-)