Quoting the blog post this HN article is supposed to be about[1]: PS: You might read this and be reasonably surprised that Rakudo Perl 6 is not, after all this

Quoting the blog post this HN article is supposed to be about[1]: PS: You might read this and be reasonably surprised that Rakudo Perl 6 is not, after all this, very fast yet. I have a - not entirely serious - explanation for that: All problems in computer science can be solved with a layer of indirection. Many layers of indirection make programs slow. Perl 6 solves many computer science problems for you ;-) In the future, we'll continue to solve those problems, just faster. [1] http://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2018/07/perl-6-on-moarvm-has-had-jit-for-few.html http://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2018/07/perl-6-on-moa...