I would like to see Raku (https://raku.org) at least mentioned in the list of languages to be aware of. Why?

  - Raku has built in Grammars so it is a great place to do early iteration of your parser
  - Raku is objects and type classes all the way down (as explained here https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda89296 )
  - RakuAST development is well advanced (use v6.e.PREVIEW) with the Slangify module to accelerate development of sub languages (Slangs)

Here is a Raku implementation of Brainfuck to whet the appetite https://github.com/alabamenhu/PolyglotBrainfuck/blob/main/li...

▲ adzm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For some reason https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda892... wasn't a link in your comment but it was a great read

▲ xfeeefeee 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For those unaware, Raku is the evolution of Perl 6, basically. It's honestly a beautiful and seductive language. At the same time it terrifies me.

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librasteve 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The main idea of renaming from Perl6 to Raku was to allow this beautiful and seductive new language to escape the black hole gravity well formed by the collapse of the Perl star. Seems like Raku is stuck inside the Perl event horizon for ever, with no hope of reputational escape.

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silisili an hour ago | parent [-]

Great analogy, and similar to how I saw things play out.

IIRC Perl 6 wanted to expand or morph into something better, spent a ton of time on it, and the community in general rejected it hard.

So now we have this dangling language that's shunned by its own community, regardless of its merits. Weird place to be in.

	▲	librasteve an hour ago \| parent [-]
		lol Well Raku is not shunned by the very warm and welcoming Raku Community … https://raku.org/community