What was it like to learn Perl 6? about raku

[petertseng]

I only looked at four exercises (and one of them was hello-world), so this is a limited answer based just on what was encountered in those four.

Of the "For Newcomers" section listed in https://raku.org/resources, I think https://perl6intro.com/ was what worked for me.

After that, I took a look at each page under "Fundamental Topics" in https://docs.perl6.org/language.html, a few of them stood out:

https://docs.perl6.org/type/Signature - very interesting that where constraints can be placed, with what looks like arbitrary code. So sort of like a pre-condition enforced on the arguments of the function.

There's obviously a lot going on with https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators as well, hyper operators, reduction metaoperators, zip metaoperators, and much more that I didn't even get to encounter in these few exercises.

I think that if I explored this language more, the operators page would warrant the most additional study. The syntax is new, but you can think of the concepts in terms of higher-order functions: hyper operators sometimes look like map, reduction metaoperator certainly looks like reduce, and zip metaoperator can be thought of as composing another function with zip

[ErikSchierboom]

We're closing this issue as it was part of our research for the v3 version of Exercism which has just been released.

Thanks everyone for chipping in! It has been greatly appreciated.