Chromatic: Goodnight, Parrot

Perl developer Chromatic has posted a post-mortem of sorts for the Parrot virtual machine. "Because volunteer time and interest and skills are not fungible, some of the people working Parrot had goals very different from mine. I wanted a useful and usable Perl 6 which allowed me to use (for example) PyGame and NLTK from Python and (if it had existed at the time) a fast CSS traversal engine from a JavaScript implementation. Other people wanted other things which had nothing to do with Perl 6. I won't speak for anyone else, but I suspect that the combination of a deliberate distancing of Parrot from Perl 6, including separate repositories, the arm's length of a six month deprecation policy, and an attempt to broaden Parrot's focus beyond just Rakudo created rifts that have only widened by now."

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