Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

Much discussion happens on #raku, our IRC channel. This is the fastest way to get help.

Discord

If you prefer Discord for live chat, there is a Discord server available that is also bridged to the IRC.

Blogs

Another way to stay tuned is reading posts from blogs that focus on Raku.

Rosetta Code

Raku is well represented on Rosetta Code, where you can see the Raku Programming Language (and many other languages) applied to numerous programming tasks.

Stack Overflow

Many questions and answers marked with Raku tag.

Learn Raku and Write about your Experience

Use the resources to learn Raku and write about your experience along the way! Let us know when you do write something if you want to share it with the larger Raku community (you should!).

Some writing topics could be programs you've written, tricks you've learned, cool things about the Raku, etc. Because of your fresh perspective as a learner, writing educational/training material would be a great idea as well.

If anything is Less Than Awesome in your experience you can chat with us, or open an issue on the User Experience repository.

Give Feedback on the Docs

Through your experience of learning and using Raku, you will have utilized the docs. You're in a good position to help us make these docs more robust. If you notice something missing, or something that could be better clarified, open an issue on the Github Repo.

Help us write tests

Help increase test coverage of the official Raku test suite called roast. This is the high bar that all Raku implementations must meet. There's a lot of ground to cover, so get up to speed with the Test module, if you don't already know it, and join us!

Contribute to the Ecosystem

Once you've learned the language, you can write modules and share them in the ecosystem. We use zef for packaging. See this guide if you have questions about how to organize modules. If you don't know what to write, check out the most wanted modules list.

Hack on the Rakudo Compiler

Rakudo™ is the most popular Raku compiler right now. Hacking on Rakudo innards is a lot easier than you would think, since most of it is written in Raku. However, since it isn't completely self-hosting, some parts are written in NQP.

NQP is a subset of Raku that is much smaller and simpler than Raku. Rakudo targets NQP. Then NQP targets various backend VMs like MoarVM, Javascript, and Java.

So you can get started right away by writing Raku, and if/when you need to access some very low-level functionality you can learn NQP. You can get up to speed fairly fast with this NQP learning course. So feel free to jump right in!