Comment by __jonas

I think comparing 'printing hello world' programs isn't particularly useful, except that from how you describe it, Raku sounds more like a scripting language, which Gleam is not.

In comparison with Gleam, I would be more interested to see how good Raku is at helping the programmer prevent errors through static analysis, how easy it is to build with concurrency, how much value the language puts into being easy to understand and reason about, and whether it can run on the server as well as compile to JS.

I have no negative predisposition, I don't really care about the history of pearl or whatever, I have looked at Raku before but I find the syntax very foreign, and the fact that it seems to (maybe optionally?) incorporate glyphs that I can't easily type with a keyboard.

I love the butterfly though, so I'd love to get to know the language more.