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roelschroeven

Is Perl's Parrot not meant to be something like that?

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Parrot [0] was meant to be that and the main VM for Perl6 (now Raku) and failed at both.

[0] http://www.parrot.org/ states:

The Parrot VM is no longer being actively developed.

Last commit: 2017-10-02

The role of Parrot as VM for Perl 6 (now "Raku") has been filled by MoarVM, supporting the Rakudo compiler.

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Parrot, as potential VM for other dynamic languages, never supplanted the existing VMs of those languages.

Raku uses MoarVM

Yes, the quote from the Parrot website I provided says exactly that: the role Parrot intended to fill for Perl6 has been filled by MoarVM supporting the Rakudo compiler.

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