December 11, 2021 – Raku Advent Calendar

Day 11 – Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package

A textual depiction of Camelia, the Raku mascot with the middle character underlined

In the previous post, I made a case for why programming languages should have a utility library that provides small-but-commonly-needed functions. Today I’m introducing a Raku package that I hope will fill that gap and discussing how this fits with the Unix philosophy