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This Docker image includes Rakudo Star, which is a Raku compiler distribution that includes MoarVMvirtual 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

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

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

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 thatyou use the default version.

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

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

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