Rakudo Star

This Docker image includes Rakudo Star, which is a Raku compiler distribution that includes MoarVM virtual machine, Rakudo compiler, a suite of modules that users may find useful, and language documentation.

Project homepage: https://rakudo.org

GitHub repository: https://github.com/rakudo/star

The Dockerfile responsible: https://github.com/raku/docker/tree/master/Dockerfile

Raku Language Specification: https://github.com/raku/roast

Raku Language Documentation: https://docs.raku.org/

Build

You can build an image from this Dockerfile as indicated below:

$ docker build -t rakudo-star /path_to_dockerfile/

In addition, you can specify the version of Rakudo Star that you want at build time:

$ docker build --build-arg rakudo_version=${DESIRED_VERSION} -t rakudo-star /path_to_dockerfile/

If no version is specified, it will default to the version listed in the Dockerfile. It is recommended that you use the default version.

Usage

Running a short-term foreground process with the image will launch a Raku REPL:

$ docker run --rm -it rakudo-star
> say 'Hello, Raku!'
Hello, Raku!

You can also provide raku command line switches to a temporary container:

$ docker run --rm rakudo-star raku -e 'say "Hello!"'

In addition, you can run a script located in the current folder:

$ docker run --rm -v "$(pwd):/script" rakudo-star raku /script/my_raku_script.raku

Updating Docker Hub Image

rakudo-star is an Official Image on Docker Hub. To update the rakudo-star image, make the necessary changes to library/rakudo-star.

Contributing/Getting Help

Many Raku developers are present on #raku on Libera.Chat

Issues for Rakudo are tracked on https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues