Incorrect, Raku(do) is not the VM. It's MoarVM (or JVM but that one is trailing behind). Rakudo is the reference implementation. Also you should think in terms

Incorrect, Raku(do) is not the VM. It's MoarVM (or JVM but that one is trailing behind). Rakudo is the reference implementation. Also you should think in terms of Perl 5 -> 7. Raku is the language formally known as Perl 6. Perl 7 isn't undoing anything, it will be the successor to Perl 5. Perl 7 should have been 5.32 with saner defaults, but of course it's now going to take another 20 years of bikeshedding until this is happening. https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/