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Concurrency

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Easily accomplished providing the ability to use Best features and libraries of other languages

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Large set of operators, easily extended

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Grammars

Taking regular expressions to the next level, unmatched by other languages.

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Multi-paradigm

Imperative, OO, Functional

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Comprehensive Unicode support

Unicode variable names, unicode symbols for maths etc.

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Long learning-curve

A lot can be done with the basics but it takes a very long time to master all features

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Snobbish community

Now that it's named 'Raku' it got even more niche.

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