[colomon]

I've been actively using Raku for work for 13 years now. (Okay, we didn't call it Raku yet at the beginning.)

Pros: - Wonderfully expressive and powerful - The best glue language I've ever worked with - Indented heredocs (I think Perl 5 has this now? But Raku's had it for a decade, and it's made a number of my scripts vastly more readable than their Perl 5 equivalents.) - Great community that responds quickly to questions

Cons: - Every few years one of the platforms I've got it running on gets far enough behind that the module manager stops working with it, and I've got to install a fresh version on that platform

Most recently, on Saturday I wrote a script to valgrind a batch of files whose name starts with a string you provide, carefully recording any valgrind errors detected. 37 lines of clean code, easy to write, and hugely useful for my current project. Have had it running more or less continually for the last 24 hours...