Raku is a Perl descendant so it's goals are the same as Perl's (for the most part). From what I've seen it is supposed to be a terse language for rapid prototyp

Raku is a Perl descendant so it's goals are the same as Perl's (for the most part). From what I've seen it is supposed to be a terse language for rapid prototyping, it has syntax support for a lot of common idioms (and of course since it came from Perl you can expect some of the best pattern matching support in the world). For me the performance is a dealbreaker, but otherwise it looks pretty good.