Comment by klibertp

> personally I prefer mine

Sure! I just thought if we're talking about "Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac" :D we can as well take it to the extreme, just to show how sugary Raku can really be (if you want).

As for the community size, I'm on Discord for a bunch of languages:

    - Haxe: ~800 (users on the server)
    - Pharo: ~300
    - Rust: ~10k
    - Scala: ~900 (might not be the gathering place of the community, would need to check)
    - Nim: ~700
    - GToolkit: ~160

Taking your numbers, the community is about as big as GToolkit, which is a niche distribution of a niche language (Pharo Smalltalk). I think that's enough to keep the lights on and even to occasionally produce something really impressive. At the same time, it's not enough to consistently polish all aspects of the language and the ecosystem: with a community of that size, you will always be running into "not implemented yet"/"no bugfix for years" problems. Which is fine in some settings, but you need to keep this in mind.