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Raku Alive

Raku
KindProgramming language
Appeared2015
StatusAlive
CreatorLarry Wall & community
FamilyPerl
Also known asPerl 6
Sourceraku.org ↗

Fifteen years of design became Perl 6 became Raku — grammars, junctions, and the most ambitious type system ever shipped; renamed in 2019.

Descended from Perl
Created by Larry Wall

Larry Wall's Perl 6 became Raku (2019) — a separate language entirely: grammars, junctions, multi-dispatch, and the most formally ambitious dynamic language ever designed.\n\nIt never found Perl 5's audience; the design's influence is on every dynamic language's ambitions.

Timeline

2015Christmas release as Perl 6
2019Renamed Raku

Sources

  1. raku.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)