Raku Enterprise Tools

Raku is designed along the same lines as Perl, letting you write code the way you want to. Corporations sometimes have a different mindset, and want code written by different people to look the same. This way new people can be brought up-to-speed on a given code base quicker.

We propose a set of CLI tools that will let users:

• Parse Raku code into an AST and reconstruct the original code from that tree.
• Walk said AST tree to make certain that the parsed code meets corporate standards as specified in a configuration file.
• Edit said AST tree in order to make the code compliant with the corporate standards.

Expected outcomes

• Command-line script to parse and “dump” AST of a small Raku file to the terminal, formatting optional.
• Modules will compile and be at least of alpha (v0.1) quality.
• Modules will have at least non-trivial documentation.
• Modules will be built with App::Mi6 and will be released to the CPAN ecosystem.
• Modules will have a non-trivial test suite which parses basic Raku expressions

Preferred skills:

• Familiarity with Raku and its grammars.
• Ability to learn on-the-fly appreciated.

Required skills:

• Experience writing at least one of:
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Ruby
  • Bash
• Experience with at least one of:
  • flex / bison
  • lex / yacc
  • ANTLR

Rating

Medium to Advanced

Possible mentors

• Jeffrey Goff (drforr@gmail.com, GitHub), DrForr on Freenode, irc.perl.org