Again with Rust, not only does 1 == 1.0 not return true, it doesn't even compile (without an explicit cast). So, from a certain point of view, Raku's behavior represents something of a compromise between the dynamic behavior of a language like Ruby and the type-system-enforced guarantees of a more static language.
And, really, Raku falls somewhere between those two extremes quite frequently. You noted Raku's clear Perl legacy, and that's definitely a big part of the linage. But Raku's DNA also owes a surprisingly large amount to Haskell due to a large number of Haskellers involved in the early design process (or so I've heard/read – I wasn't involved that early).
Oh, and re:
Again with Rust, not only does
1 == 1.0
not return true, it doesn't even compile (without an explicit cast). So, from a certain point of view, Raku's behavior represents something of a compromise between the dynamic behavior of a language like Ruby and the type-system-enforced guarantees of a more static language.And, really, Raku falls somewhere between those two extremes quite frequently. You noted Raku's clear Perl legacy, and that's definitely a big part of the linage. But Raku's DNA also owes a surprisingly large amount to Haskell due to a large number of Haskellers involved in the early design process (or so I've heard/read – I wasn't involved that early).
Haskell makes the same choices as Ruby and Python (and pretty much every other language):