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Getting started

  • Rakudo

  • MoarVM

  • JVM

  • Niecza

  • CLR

  • Pugs

  • Raku is a specification and a set of tests.

  • Any compiler that passes all the tests is considered to be a valid Raku compiler.

  • There are several compilers for Raku.

  • As of today, they are all partial and implement only a subset of the language.

  • Rakudo can run on any one of the following back-ends: MoarVM, the JVM.

  • Niecza is a compiler targetting the Common Language Runtime (.NET and Mono).

  • Pugs written in Haskell was the first usable implementation, but it is currently only minimally maintained.

We are going to use Rakudo with MoarVM.