App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
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Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#2This is my first time hearing about Raku (the language this tool is apparently written in), and after a quick look at the website[1], I am not sure why I would want to use Raku vs any other language in particular.
According to the guide[2]:
> Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming.
That really doesn't tell me enough. Anyone else have any idea why I might want to use Raku vs one of the many other langs to which those adjectives can be applied?
Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#3This is my first time hearing about Raku (the language this tool is apparently written in), and after a quick look at the website[1], I am not sure why I would want to use Raku vs any other language in particular. According to the guide[2]: > Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming. That really doe…
RegEx probably, since raku is perl 6 afaik.
Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#4This is my first time hearing about Raku (the language this tool is apparently written in), and after a quick look at the website[1], I am not sure why I would want to use Raku vs any other language in particular. According to the guide[2]: > Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming. That really doe…
RegEx probably, since raku is perl 6 afaik.
Yeah it’s basically a language purpose made for matching text
Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#5It's not clear from the README what advantages it offers over ripgrep.
Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#6This is my first time hearing about Raku (the language this tool is apparently written in), and after a quick look at the website[1], I am not sure why I would want to use Raku vs any other language in particular. According to the guide[2]: > Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming. That really doe…
Raku is a Perl descendant so it's goals are the same as Perl's (for the most part). From what I've seen it is supposed to be a terse language for rapid prototyping, it has syntax support for a lot of common idioms (and of course since it came from Perl you can expect some of the best pattern matching support in the world). For me the performance is a dealbreaker, but otherwise it looks pretty good.
Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#7This is my first time hearing about Raku (the language this tool is apparently written in), and after a quick look at the website[1], I am not sure why I would want to use Raku vs any other language in particular. According to the guide[2]: > Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming. That really doe…
I really like this post about Raku: "Raku : A Language for Gremlins" https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/raku-a-language...
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Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#9This is my first time hearing about Raku (the language this tool is apparently written in), and after a quick look at the website[1], I am not sure why I would want to use Raku vs any other language in particular. According to the guide[2]: > Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming. That really doe…
raku is perl 6, it's just called "raku" now.
Given that, it's 23 years old and done by Larry Wall so it's not exactly yet another fly-by-night hype language, just something that is not in the top 50.
Re: App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
#10This is my first time hearing about Raku (the language this tool is apparently written in), and after a quick look at the website[1], I am not sure why I would want to use Raku vs any other language in particular. According to the guide[2]: > Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming. That really doe…
The big thing Raku offers is grammars as a built-in language feature:
https://docs.raku.org/language/grammar_tutorial
> Regular expressions (Regexes) work well for finding patterns in strings. However, for some tasks, like finding multiple patterns at once, or combining patterns, or testing for patterns that may surround strings regular expressions, alone, are not enough.
> When working with HTML, you could define a grammar to recognize HTML tags, both the opening and closing elements, and the text in between. You could then organize these elements into data structures, such as arrays or hashes.