[sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 07/12 at 1pm PDT
Joseph Brenner
doomvox at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 17:54:30 PDT 2026
"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
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