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Does anyone use Raku? I have never seen a blog post or tweet about it, ever.
by ursuscamp 2y ago
Does anyone use Raku? I have never seen a blog post or tweet about it, ever.
- rjh29 2y agoI don't think so. Perl is still used at many companies but Raku is basically dead. To give you an idea the conference is expected to have 100 attendees.
- librasteve 2y agoits still worth a look as an alternative to Python for those whole feel too "constricted" (geddit?) and has Inline::Perl5 and Inline::Python (and C FFI) so can leverage those eco-systems
- _mlbt 2y agoIf you scroll to the bottom of https://raku.org/ https://raku.org/ there is a list of a few companies that are successfully using it in production. There are also some blogs here https://planet.raku.org/ https://planet.raku.org/ It’s definitely not a popular language but it has some users.
- lizmat 2y agoCheck out https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/ https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/
- librasteve 2y agothis is a good intro to unicode https://dev.to/bbkr/unicode-vs-utf-4g8c https://dev.to/bbkr/unicode-vs-utf-4g8c (it uses raku for many of the examples due to raku's unicode capabilities)