Escaping and string interpolation are two different things. Personally, I use interpolation in raw strings all the time (for example, when building complex regex patterns).

ruckustboom: I'd like to have the possiblity to have simply

$

in triple quotes

I can definitely see the reasons, but you can't have it both ways. The advantage of allowing string interpolation is the workaround to get a

$

character is fairly simple and straightforward, whereas if you didn't, you would have to resort to Java methods of building strings.

I’ve been using it a lot for building json payloads for tests