Learning Raku From Inside Out
summary
Practical tour of Raku internals: shows that Rakudo is a compiler that emits MoarVM/JS/Java backends, explains how variables are implemented (symbols + container scalars, binding vs assignment), demos lexical vs dynamic scoping and frames, exposes the MOP (class how, .how, submethod build/tweak/new) and the nqp bootstrap, and warns about surprises (proxy fetch can be invoked dozens of times during dispatch, precompilation makes begin run at compile time). Includes repository of runnable examples and build notes for Rakudo.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:56What is Raku
- 8:53Implementation
- 16:17Backend
- 18:58Raku Structure
- 23:04NQP Operations
- 25:48CompUnit
- 30:21Frames
- 35:06Visualizing
- 36:03Examples
- 38:56Dynamic Variables
- 56:58Pseudocode example
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