I occasionally wrote Perl scripts before the great schism ™ between Perl 5 (about to phase out some time in the next few years) and Perl 6 (lacks wider adoption yet) happened. I lost track of what goes on in Perl after that. In fact, last time I looked at Perl 6, the reference implementation ran on the JVM. I guess I'd want Perl 6 running interpreted like Perl 5.
Well it's come somewhere of a long way since then.
The schism is (mostly) fixed, Perl5 and Perl6 devs are polite to each other. There's some who wish the other language would just go away but it's not likely to happen soon.
The reference (and stable) version runs on it's own dedicated VM and is about to hit it's next milestone release. It can compile to the JVM but your mileage may vary.
I wouldn't hold your breath for a non VM one any time soon.
I may cover the current and near future state of things in my next post.
I occasionally wrote Perl scripts before the great schism ™ between Perl 5 (about to phase out some time in the next few years) and Perl 6 (lacks wider adoption yet) happened. I lost track of what goes on in Perl after that. In fact, last time I looked at Perl 6, the reference implementation ran on the JVM. I guess I'd want Perl 6 running interpreted like Perl 5.
Well it's come somewhere of a long way since then.
The schism is (mostly) fixed, Perl5 and Perl6 devs are polite to each other. There's some who wish the other language would just go away but it's not likely to happen soon.
The reference (and stable) version runs on it's own dedicated VM and is about to hit it's next milestone release. It can compile to the JVM but your mileage may vary.
I wouldn't hold your breath for a non VM one any time soon.
I may cover the current and near future state of things in my next post.
I'll read it. Thank you!