I love my perl5 VM and therefore am not the expert on this. I've contributed to Parrot and I've contributed to Perl 5. I hope this doesn't sound like an appea

I love my perl5 VM and therefore am not the expert on this. I've contributed to Parrot and I've contributed to Perl 5. I hope this doesn't sound like an appeal to authority, but after my experiences, I believe that Perl 5 cannot evolve much further unless its internals undergo a similar rethinking. Parrot has been nailed to the perch since Dan Sugalski left. Dan designed a pretty good virtual machine to run Perl 5. Compare the timeline of Rakudo's genesis and his departure.