rakudo/rakudo

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1896 stars · 386 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Rakudo is the primary, production-ready compiler implementation of the Raku programming language, targeting the MoarVM, JVM, and JavaScript backends. It is actively maintained by the Raku Foundation and distributed under the Artistic License 2.0.

Use cases

• compile and run Raku programs
• install a Raku interpreter on Linux, macOS, or Windows
• run Raku on the JVM or JavaScript backends
• contribute to Raku language development
• test code against the official Raku spec test suite (roast)
• build Raku from source with custom VM configuration

When to choose

• you want the primary, most mature implementation of Raku
• you need a multi-backend compiler (MoarVM, JVM, JS)
• you want to hack on the Raku compiler or VM toolchain

When to avoid

• you need a full Raku distribution with modules and docs preinstalled (use Rakudo Star instead)
• you only want to learn Raku without building a compiler from source

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

compiler interpreter programming-language programming-languages compilers developer-tools windows jvm cross-platform raku moarvm nqp perl6-family virtual-machine-backends compiler linux macos

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