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It is good for writing cross-platform scripts. It's easier and more powerful than Bash but not as heavy and cumbersome as Python.
Raku is the new name for Perl 6. They changed the name because there are backward incompatible changes in the new version, and they wanted to try to move away from the negative associations people have with Perl.
Perl has always been better than Bash at scripting, and Raku added some modern features to take that advantage further.
As someone who is paid for doing Perl, there is nothing on gods green earth to make me try anything even remotely related to Perl.
I'd be curious what you dislike about perl that is not fixed in raku.
I'll be honest - I never studied Roku, so I don't know much about it.
If they got rid of those magic variables, that's good enough.
Just now I looked at docs and no, they left a lot of stuff in there.
I've never understood the frustration over magic variables. It's always sounded similar to the complaints about
vardeclarations when people are used to explicit type declarations. Verbosity like that just reads as attenuating noise to me.I'm sorry, but I don't see the parallel between
myanddo {local (@ARGV, $/) = $file; <>}Even renaming standard keywords, like
nextandlast, addingunless... There was a whole book about best practices, and I wish Perl 6 followed that to the T.My biggest gripe with Perl is the entire dimensions of possibility to hide effects. And Raku seems to have kept a lot of it, and added more stuff on top.
I second that notion. Perl did a couple of things right compared to Python, but I'm still glad I don't have to maintain those code bases.