Talks
Conference talks about Raku++ — what it is, why it exists, and how it is being built. The deck lives in presentation/: the interactive index.html, or the PDF export.
Upcoming
London Perl & Raku Workshop 2026
- When: Saturday, 21 November 2026 — arrive from 09:00 for a 09:20 start.
- Where: The Café at Zoopla, The Cooperage, 5 Copper Row, London SE1 2LH, United Kingdom.
- Site: https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2026/
- Status: talk — proposal 8059 — accepted. Attendance is free, with optional supporter tickets.
29. Deutscher Perl/Raku-Workshop 2027
- When: 14–16 April 2027 (three days).
- Where: Stadtteilzentrum Nordstadt Bürgerschule, Klaus-Müller-Kilian-Weg 2, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
- Site: https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2027/ — the call for papers is open.
- Status: talk proposed — proposal 8053 (the page stays private until the talk is accepted).
Wanted, not yet open
FOSDEM 2027
Brussels, Belgium, at the ULB Solbosch campus — traditionally a weekend at the turn of January and February; FOSDEM 2026 was 31 January – 1 February. The 2027 edition has no page, no dates, and no call for participation yet, so there is nothing to submit to. Watch https://fosdem.org/.
What the talks cover
- What it is — a from-scratch implementation of Raku in C++17 with no third-party dependencies: a hand-written lexer, parser and tree-walking evaluator, which also compiles a program to a standalone native binary and runs in the browser through WebAssembly.
- Why — a second implementation of the language, targeting the language rather than forking Rakudo, and what having two engines is worth: every divergence found is a question about what Raku actually specifies.
- How it is developed — Roast as the measuring stick, the documentation-example and ecosystem sweeps that drive what gets built next, and the release gates behind the numbers in README.md and the CHANGELOG.
Past
None yet. The written introduction, in the meantime, is the announcement post: Raku++ — the fastest Raku compiler.