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Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >https://www.perl.com/article/an-open-letter-to-the-perl-community/ The "Butterfly Perl 5" project is a non-starter until MoarVM and the other proposed platforms provide C compilers. Without a compiler there's no way to port our large and complex C program. There's no way we could maintain a parallel implementation in another language, which is what the use of NQP without a C-to-NQP compiler would entail. The "CPAN Butterfly" project sounds worthwhile, but not as straightforward as the letter suggests. A Perl 5 API doesn't automatically work as a Perl 6 API, due to differences in data types and calling conventions, and even where a fairly direct translation is possible it often wouldn't make an idiomatic Perl 6 API. Some modules are very tied to the Perl 5 data model and wouldn't make sense on Perl 6 at all. But a lot of substantive modules could be imitated in a higher-level way, by the application of some intelligence. In any case, this is quite irrelevant to p5p. -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next