nextcloud-docs/rakudo-star/content.md

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: http://rakudo.org

GitHub repository: https://github.com/rakudo/star

The Dockerfile responsible: http://github.com/raku/docker/tree/master/Dockerfile

Raku Language Documentation: http://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 Freenode.

Issues for Rakudo are tracked in on GitHub.