Raku is surprisingly good for CLIs
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A while back I wrote Raku: a Language for Gremlins about my first experiences with the language. After three more months of using it I've found that it's...
  • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure why that’s surprising. Raku started out as Perl 6. Perl was designed primarily for use in a shell environment. Convenience features like the arguments to MAIN bit are in line with Perl philosophy.

    • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
      51·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I didn’t know about these features - I’ve never written any Perl before - and I do find them kinda interesting and cool. But not really surprising.

      A less clickbaity title might be “Exploring Raku’s built-in shortcuts for CLIs” or something. Still 6 words. And I still would have clicked and enjoyed the article! Really appreciated its positive tone and clear examples!

      • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Oh, I’ve got no complaints about the article or even its title. Few people learn Perl or Raku these days so it would be surprising for most people.

        I thought it was interesting myself - Perl’s my go-to scripting language but I never used Raku. I might consider it next time I have a non-trivial scripting project.

        • bnjmn@programming.dev
          1·
          1 year ago

          As someone who picked up Raku without knowing anything about Perl (besides the fact that it had something to do with regex), it was a little surprising :)