rakudo-star

Install command: 
brew install rakudo-star

Also known as: perl6

Rakudo compiler and commonly used packages

https://rakudo.org/

License: Artistic-2.0

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/rakudo-star.json

Formula code: rakudo-star.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 2025.10

Revision: 1

Depends on:

libtommath 1.3.0 C library for number theoretic multiple-precision integers
mimalloc 3.1.5 Compact general purpose allocator
openssl@3 3.6.0 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
readline 8.3.1 Library for command-line editing
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm
libuv 1.51.0 Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O

Depends on when building from source:

bash 5.3.3 Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
sqlite 3.51.0 Command-line interface for SQLite

Conflicts with: moor, moarvm, nqp, parrot, rakudo

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
rakudo-star 230
Installs on Request (30 days)
rakudo-star 230
Build Errors (30 days)
rakudo-star 0
Installs (90 days)
rakudo-star 439
Installs on Request (90 days)
rakudo-star 439
Installs (365 days)
rakudo-star 1,633
rakudo-star --HEAD 3
Installs on Request (365 days)
rakudo-star 1,632
rakudo-star --HEAD 3