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I'm glad Perl6 finally went the route of MoarVM. I always felt that ParrotVM (which was supposed to also run Python and Ruby) was a terrible distraction and sco

I'm glad Perl6 finally went the route of MoarVM. I always felt that ParrotVM (which was supposed to also run Python and Ruby) was a terrible distraction and scope creep. The idea was laudable but it would have required buy-in from the other communities. As much as I like Perl, I don't think that would have been fair to them, as Python and Ruby have evolved into their own respective identities.

krylon 9y ago
> The idea was laudable but it would have required buy-in from the other communities But imagine how cool it would have been - write a class in Python, sub-class it from Ruby, use that subclass in a function written in Perl, call that function from Lua code... Okay, I see it now. It was just too awesome for its time. Maybe in a hundred years or so...
- bigleagueposter 9y ago
  JVM is now becoming what Parrot was intended to be with Graal/Truffle.
  - krylon 9y ago
    I guess so. But without Perl 5 and Perl 6 it is just not going to be the same. (Pouty face)
    - mst 9y ago
      Step 1. Fix Rakudo on the JVM Step 2. Fix the perl5-in-perl6 work Step 3. Retreat to a corner and sob until you recover some SAN points
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