There's so many languages out there, I reject Raku out-of-hand simply since IMO ...

lizmat · 2026-01-08T11:33:23 1767872003

You mean like:

    my $a of Int = 42;
    say $a;  # 42

or

    my $a of Int = "foo";'       
    # Type check failed in assignment to $a; expected Int but got Str ("foo")

?

librasteve · 2026-01-07T18:27:00 1767810420

hmmm Raku is C style

  int number;

 … you choose Pascal style

  number : Integer;

jolt42 · 2026-01-08T04:43:42 1767847422

Very good, I wrote Pascal many years ago, but I was thinking more Kotlin/Scala (right?) vs Java.