I watch the Perl 6 project closely. You are misunderstanding what is going on. Perl 6 has to target a VM, just as Perl 5, Python and Ruby do. The Rakudo Perl 6

I watch the Perl 6 project closely. You are misunderstanding what is going on. Perl 6 has to target a VM, just as Perl 5, Python and Ruby do. The Rakudo Perl 6 team picked the Parrot VM and tried to focus on everything but the VM. That's clearly no longer tenable because Parrot has turned out to be a Norwegian Blue (at least at the moment). It's disappointing that Perl 6 still isn't ready for prime time. Fortunately Larry Wall and friends are changing that. I'm confident MoarVM is yet another big leap in the right direction.