Fwiw most Rakudo devs now prefer MoarVM for most things because it's generally the fastest, leanest, least buggy and most specification compliant of the current

Fwiw most Rakudo devs now prefer MoarVM for most things because it's generally the fastest, leanest, least buggy and most specification compliant of the currently available backends (MoarVM, JVM, Parrot). MoarVM is definitely the right pick for folk who want the leanest startup P6 can deliver. http://moarvm.org/ http://moarvm.org/ Even with the MoarVM backend, Rakudo takes a lot more time and RAM to startup than the compiler for most mainstream languages. It handily beats the JVMs devs use but that's not saying much. On the third hand, a few devs have said they are regularly using Rakudo at $work, including for one-liners. If anyone wants to try P6 I recommend RakudoBrew: https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew