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The Raku Foundation is born
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- The Raku Foundation was established as a legal entity to support the Raku programming language (formerly Perl 6) after its rename in October 2019.
- The foundation was incorporated in the Netherlands under Dutch law, though the specific rationale for this jurisdiction choice wasn't clearly documented in the available sources.
- The foundation's creation was discussed in blog posts by Lizmat, with some links now broken or inaccessible.
- Raku originated from Perl 6 with a major goal of removing historical warts from Perl, including sigil confusion, select function ambiguity, and bareword filehandle syntax issues.
- Community members have engaged with wordplay around 'Raku,' noting it translates to a Japanese homophone for 'lisp' (risupu).
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maxloh3.5k karma
Context: Raku was formerly named Perl 6; it was renamed in October 2019 for compatibility reasons. > The major goal Wall suggested in his initial speech was the removal of historical warts. These included the confusion surrounding sigil usage for containers, the ambiguity between the select functions, and the syntactic impact of bareword filehandles. There were many other problems that Perl programmers had discussed fixing for years, and these were explicitly addressed by Wall in his speech. >…Read on HN ↗
zx80801.2k karma
I looked through this article but wasn't able to find why it was decided to establish it in Netherlands (under the Dutch law). Could someone share it?Read on HN ↗
lizmat1.1k karma
And the original blog post from almost a year ago: https://dev.to/lizmat/towards-a-raku-foundation-3ne2Read on HN ↗