Raku Programming Language

I haven't done much with Raku since about early February; not from lack of interest, but lack of time.

What Is Raku?

Fork/rewrite of the Perl programming language
Ambitious project launched in early 2000s
- Goal is to be the programming language for the next 100 years
First release in 2015
Originally intended to be called Perl6
- renamed in 2019

Easy to learn and start using right away
- The powerful tools in the language are kept hidden until you need them
Very powerful, flexible language
Very easy to create and distribute new modules
- App::Mi6
  - Highly recommended for creating modules
Flexible
- Can write in any common paradigm
  - procedural
  - object-oriented
  - functional
Has powerful, new features
- Grammars
It's just fun to play around with and see what I can do with it

Cro
- a framework for building websites
- written in Raku
- have not used it yet but want to play with it
IDE development in Raku?
- Raku IDE notes
- One exists, called Comma
  - My comma notes
  - Just tried it out for 2 minutes
    - Initial impression is good
      - much faster than neovim
    - first thing I did is install the IdeaVim plug-in that gives me vim commands inside the IDE
  - downside
    - probably no way to integrate with tmux
      - will have to set up a hotkey to activate it
        
        I'll use Karabiner Elements for that
- I'd prefer to develop in neovim
  - unable to find a language server, however
  - syntax highlighting is atrociously slow
    - I turn it off for any file larger than like 50 lines
  - not sure how hard it is to build a language server
    - probably pretty tough

Began learning the language in late Dec. 2021
Good, helpful community
- IRC
- On reddit
- StackOverflow
  - my questions there get upvoted a lot
Community is working to get Raku off the ground
- Thanks to everyone who has helped me and made me feel welcome
Going to begin writing some code for helping me manage my vimwiki
Still have much to learn
- Learning functional programming style after years of using perl is bit of a mind-bender

Karabiner::CompModGenerctor
- helps generate shortcut keys for use with Karabiner-Elements app on mac
Mac::Applications::List
- list applications on a mac
- writtn most for use with Karabiner::CompModGenerator