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That would be great. But I'm wondering why the authors of other major dynamic languages haven't chosen to collaborate and use Parrot as their primary VM.

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Parrot 1.0.0 was released in March of this year. Give it time.

A new technology needs to be MUCH better than any technology it hopes to supplant. Of course "better" can have many different meanings.

Is Parrot 1.0.0 radically better than other (non-perl) VMs?

Mostly, because they already have a VM that works.

I guess, but many of them seem to want a more advanced VM. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656594)

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