In addition to being Digital Minister, I was aware of Audrey Tang in work done with Perl6 (preceding Raku)[0]. As I understand it effectively it was a testbed for Perl6 changes that implemented the spec in Haskell/GHC.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(compiler)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(compiler)</a>