Hi. I'm the lang designer and feature implementor. To your question of "why?", we tried to cover the reasoning in teh proposal. But, the core reason is that

Hi. I'm the lang designer and feature implementor. To your question of "why?", we tried to cover the reasoning in teh proposal. But, the core reason is that today people do use strings a ton. And in many cases it's unpleasant to do so because you always end up with reasons that you need to escape the content. This escaping serves to satisfy the compiler, but really doesn't buy value to teh user the majority of the time. The idea here is that you can just use a raw-string and say: here's the content, exactly as i want it.