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Raku's big strengths lie, IMO, in the command line scripting capabilities (the MAIN function), parsing with grammars and powerful new regex syntax, and as a glu

Raku's big strengths lie, IMO, in the command line scripting capabilities (the MAIN function), parsing with grammars and powerful new regex syntax, and as a glue language. It's relatively easy to bind to external libraries and work with them. Look at how easily raku binds to a python charting module in this article: https://www.perl.com/article/plotting-with-perl-6/ https://www.perl.com/article/plotting-with-perl-6/

cutler 6y ago
But if it's slow at really basic stuff users will ignore it, surely?
- lizmat 6y ago
  Slow is in the eye of the beholder. Sure, for some applications, Perl blows Raku out of the water. Add in some Moose, and the situation is not so different. YMMV.
  - cutler 6y ago
    On my 4-core i7 Macbook Pro parsing a 20Mb log file with a regex takes 9.4 times longer with Raku than Perl5. That's unacceptable. Adding Moose to Perl5 reduces the differential to 7.1 which is still huge.
    - lizmat 6y ago
      Do you have a gist of your code and a representative sample of the log file you're parsing?
      - cutler 6y ago
        It's a one-liner: for 'logs1.txt'.IO.lines -> $_ { .say if $_ ~~ /<<\w ** 15>>/; }