Rakudo

This is Rakudo, a Raku Programming Language compiler for the MoarVM, JVM and Javascript virtual machines.

Rakudo is Copyright © 2008-2023, Yet Another Society. Rakudo is distributed under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For more details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.

This directory contains only the Rakudo compiler itself; it does not contain any of the modules, documentation, or other items that would normally come with a full Raku distribution. If you're after more than just the bare compiler, please download the latest Rakudo Star package.

Rakudo is currently the most developed implementation of the Raku language; though there have been other partial implementations in the past. The Rakudo compiler has moar, jvm and js backends. Note that each backend has a slightly different set of features. For historical compilers see https://www.raku.org/compilers/. If you have a question about Raku syntax or the right way to approach a problem using Raku, you probably want the “perl6-users@perl.org” mailing list or the irc.libera.chat/#raku IRC channel. The mailing list is primarily for the people who want to use Raku to write programs, so newbie questions are welcomed there. Newbie questions are also welcome on the #raku channel; the Rakudo development teams tend to hang out there and are generally glad to help. You can follow @raku_news and on Twitter, there's a Raku news aggregator at Planet Raku.