# Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links - [`2017.04`, `latest` (*Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/perl6/docker/blob/7f0916782f33dc289b5ad0035b5227472e3de14d/Dockerfile) # Quick reference - **Where to get help**: [the Docker Community Forums](https://forums.docker.com/), [the Docker Community Slack](https://blog.docker.com/2016/11/introducing-docker-community-directory-docker-community-slack/), or [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=docker) - **Where to file issues**: [https://github.com/perl6/docker/issues](https://github.com/perl6/docker/issues) - **Maintained by**: [the Perl 6 Community](https://github.com/perl6/docker) - **Published image artifact details**: [repo-info repo's `repos/rakudo-star/` directory](https://github.com/docker-library/repo-info/blob/master/repos/rakudo-star) ([history](https://github.com/docker-library/repo-info/commits/master/repos/rakudo-star)) (image metadata, transfer size, etc) - **Image updates**: [official-images PRs with label `library/rakudo-star`](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls?q=label%3Alibrary%2Frakudo-star) [official-images repo's `library/rakudo-star` file](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/master/library/rakudo-star) ([history](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/commits/master/library/rakudo-star)) - **Source of this description**: [docs repo's `rakudo-star/` directory](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/rakudo-star) ([history](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/commits/master/rakudo-star)) - **Supported Docker versions**: [the latest release](https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/latest) (down to 1.6 on a best-effort basis) # What is Rakudo Star? Rakudo Star is a Perl 6 distribution designed for use by early adopters of the language. It includes a virtual machine (the JVM or MoarVM), the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, and a suite of modules that users may find useful. This image includes the MoarVM backend for the compiler. Project homepage: [http://rakudo.org](http://rakudo.org) GitHub repository: [https://github.com/rakudo/star](https://github.com/rakudo/star) The Dockerfile responsible: [http://github.com/perl6/docker/tree/master/Dockerfile](http://github.com/perl6/docker/tree/master/Dockerfile) Perl 6 Language Specification: [http://design.perl6.org/](http://design.perl6.org/) Perl 6 Language Documentation: [http://doc.perl6.org/](http://doc.perl6.org/)  # How to use this image Simply running a container with the image will launch a Perl 6 REPL: ```console $ docker run -it rakudo-star > say 'Hello, Perl!' Hello, Perl! ``` You can also provide perl6 command line switches to `docker run`: ```console $ docker run -it rakudo-star -e 'say "Hello!"' ``` # Contributing/Getting Help Many Perl 6 developers are present on #perl6 on Freenode. Issues for Rakudo are tracked in RT: [https://rt.perl.org/](https://rt.perl.org/) # License View [license information](https://github.com/rakudo/star/blob/master/LICENSE) for the software contained in this image.