Chromatic: Goodnight, Parrot
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."
The LWN site is currently under high scraper load, so comment display has been suppressed for anonymous users. If you are a human, you may read the comments by clicking the button below:
Note: you can avoid this step in the future by logging into your LWN account.