[librasteve]

I thought it would be interesting to try the showcase examples in Raku (since I am always saying how good Raku's imitation of Ruby is)...

  - https://glot.io/snippets/he42jpfm27
  - https://glot.io/snippets/he42trx6w6
  - https://glot.io/snippets/he434b6ryj

Obviously Raku leans more to `{}` and `my $var` than Ruby - but otherwise I think it does a credible job. Obviously these are carefully chosen Ruby snippets to highlit its unique abilities in strings, "array math" and classes. On the string interpolation, I would say that Raku has the slight edge (and has the whole Q-slang for a lot of fine grained control). On the array math, I had to apply the (built in) Raku set diff operator ... so I guess that Ruby is a little more natural for this (rather quirky) feature. On the class stuff, again very close. Raku has much more powerful OO under the hood ... multi-inheritance, role-composition, punning, mixins, MOP, and yet is a delight to use in this lightweight way.

[yawaramin]

For fun, I did the same for OCaml:

Ex 1

    let say = "I love OCaml"
    let () = print_endline say

    (* Requires linking in the 'str' library *)
    let say = Str.replace_first (Str.regexp {|\(.*\)love\(.*\)|}) {|\1*love*\2|} say;;
    let () = print_endline (String.uppercase_ascii say)

    let () = ignore |> Seq.init 5 |> Seq.iter (fun () -> print_endline say)

Ex 2

    module StringSet = Set.Make(String)

    let cities = StringSet.of_list [
      "London";
      "Oslo";
      "Paris";
      "Amsterdam";
      "Berlin";
    ]
    let visited = StringSet.of_list ["Berlin"; "Oslo"]

    (* Requires the 'fmt' library *)
    let string_set fmt v = Fmt.Dump.list Fmt.string fmt (StringSet.to_list v)

    let () =
      Format.printf "I still need to visit the following cities: %a\n"
        string_set
        (StringSet.diff cities visited)

Ex 3

  module Greeter : sig
    type t

    val make : string -> t
    val salute : t -> unit
  end = struct
    type t = { name : string }

    let make name = { name = String.uppercase_ascii name }
    let salute t = Format.printf "Hello %s\n" t.name
  end

  let g = Greeter.make "world"
  let () = Greeter.salute g

Obviously, OCaml is a much lower-level language than Ruby or Raku–notably, regex support is not as great, and we have to explicitly tell it how to print values of custom types. Still, I find its lack of syntax sugar makes it easy to read nearly any OCaml code I come across in the wild!

[christophilus]

Man. Haven’t thought about Raku for a while. Does it have a good web framework these days?

[librasteve]

The leading web framework for Raku is Cro (https://cro.raku.org) . Cro has deep support for distributed architectures and middleware pipes and a nice templating language.

  my Cro $service; # geddit?

There are others, notably the more lightweight Humming-Bird https://raku.land/zef:rawleyfowler/Humming-Bird

Also, if you want a more opinionated, HTMX centric web application library, then https://harcstack.org was used to make the new https://raku.org site

[yawaramin]

See https://rakujourney.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/the-harc-stack/

[librasteve]

that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while