Raku

Summary

A high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed for flexibility and expressiveness. It features rich built-in support for object-oriented, functional, and procedural programming with strong metaprogramming capabilities.

Paradigms

imperative, object-oriented, functional, concurrent, meta-programming

Domains

text processing, scripting, automation, web development

Key Features

first-class functions, closures, pattern matching, algebraic data types, type inference, operator overloading, mixins, traits/interfaces, REPL, native FFI, macros, async/await, reflection, meta-programming, destructuring, range types, variadic functions, named arguments, modules, iterators/generators, generics, lambdas, coroutines

Typing

gradual system, structural typing, strong typing, partial inference, runtime checking, moderate type coercion, optional type annotations

Compilation

interpreted with JIT compilation, compiled

Influenced By

Perl, Haskell, Ruby, Python, Lisp, CLU, Smalltalk, Ada, APL, Common Lisp, Self, META II

Ratings

File extensions

6pl, 6pm, nqp, p6, p6l, p6m, pl, pl6, pm, pm6, raku, rakumod, t

External Links

• Raku official site
• Raku jobs at Devjobsscanner
• r/rakulang subreddit
• Trending GitHub repositories