I find python is not a natural fit for shell script replacement (may be I am doing it wrong).

Executing a process and bringing back status, stdout and stderr seem tedious. While in Perl, it is as natural as it is in a bash script (well almost).

Raku on the other hand is _Fun_.

coming back to raku after basically any other language is a breath of fresh air. i haven't even been worrying much about when the ast stuff lands cause i can't think of anything i would even want to mess with that much, even though i seem fundamentally incapable of engaging with lisp/prolog/forth without giving in to the siren song of metaprogramming. to me that's a very strong sign of how much it gets right as a base language.

i do all my automation with one tiny 20 line raku script that manages a thousand things. hell, the entire monitoring site for our frog is basically just a pile of mixins with a neat little pipeline interface unifying everything from request profiling and html templating to reading from and filling that cache in parallel whenever it remotely pulls the sensor data off various things and gets the current webcam frame.