1.1 KiB
1.1 KiB
What is Rakudo Star?
Rakudo Star is a Raku (formerly known as Perl 6) distribution designed for use by early adopters of the language. It includes a virtual machine (the JVM or MoarVM), the Rakudo compiler, and a suite of modules that users may find useful. This image includes the MoarVM backend for the compiler.
- Project homepage: https://rakudo.org/
- Raku Language Specification: https://github.com/Raku/roast
- Raku Language Documentation: https://docs.raku.org/
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How to use this image
Simply running a container with the image will launch a Raku REPL:
$ docker run -it %%IMAGE%%
> say 'Hello, Raku!'
Hello, Raku!
You can also provide raku command line switches to docker run:
$ docker run -it %%IMAGE%% raku -e 'say "Hello!"'
Contributing/Getting Help
Many Raku developers are present on #raku on Libera.Chat
Issues for Rakudo are tracked in on GitHub.