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RakuAST Grant Report
he RakuAST project was a rewrite and redesign of the compiler frontend, i.e. the part that parses the original source code, figures out what the different parts are, does checks and optimizations and creates a low level representation which will then be turned into bytecode by the backend.
There are also more obvious cases like BEGIN blocks or statements, constant declarations and trait applications (which again, are really just compile time called subs with funny names). The standard library itself is a body of roughly 100 thousand lines of code written by people who are really into Raku, meaning they did know and not shy away from using advanced features. Nevertheless help came from Elizabeth Mattijsen (who took care of all of RakuDoc and other things), John Haltiwanger, Vadim Belman, Jimmy Zhuo and Daniel Green.
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