From doomvox at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 17:54:30 2026 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 17:54:30 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 07/12 at 1pm PDT Message-ID: "Last year I started learning Raku, and the sheer bizarreness of the language left me describing it as a language for gremlins. Now that I've used it in anger for over a year, I have a better way of describing it: 'Raku is a laboratory for language features.' This is why it has five different models of concurrency and eighteen ways of doing anything else, because the point is to see what happens. It also explains why many of the features interact so strangely and why there's all that odd edge-case behavior. Getting 100 experiments polished and playing nicely with each other is much harder than running 100 experiments ... " Hillel Wayne, "Five Unusual Raku Features", November 12, 2024 https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/five-unusual-raku-features/ The Raku Study Group Sunday July 12, 2026, 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got, ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk. Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Raku, Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87107787787?pwd=OgCqrESJGaaW1JnDMOV2LQoy3hiZzS.1 Passcode: 4RakuRoll Information about upcoming meetings can always be found here: https://github.com/doomvox/raku-study/blob/main/README.md -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: