Parrot VM v1.3.0 Released

http://www.parrot.org/news/2009/Parrot-1.3.0

by chorny • 17 years ago

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GeneralMaximus• 17 years ago

I am waiting for the day when these guys say, "Okay, we're done. Now go write some Perl 6 and run it on our VM".

kingkongrevenge• 17 years ago

That day was well back last year.

geuis• 17 years ago

Can someone provide some examples of what Parrot is useful for? Maybe some everyday scenarios?

chorny• 17 years ago

See http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7373 for example

draegtun• 17 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663019

johnnybgoode2• 17 years ago

As I said at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656493, I don't see why the communities for other dynamic languages are still investing so much effort into building new VMs instead of collaborating on something like this.

enomar• 17 years ago

I too, really like the idea of a single VM for many languages. Having just watched the Google IO video on V8, I'm starting to think there are some serious advantages to specialized engines.

For example, V8 replaced the regular expression engine that Webkit was using with one that was specially designed to work with Javascript's regex syntax. Maybe you can get similar performance with a generalized engine, but I'm no longer of the mind that one VM for all languages will be the end-all-be-all solution.

http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/V8BuildingHighPerf...

johnnybgoode2• 17 years ago

This guy seems to agree with you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662553 ;)

In the big picture I don't know if something like that matters as much as sharing a lot of advanced VM techniques.

zokier• 17 years ago

Parrot is indeed interesting, kinda like .NET for more 'fun' languages, and of course with full FOSS spirit. But is Parrot currently actually usable for 'real' work? Is any language implemented extensively enough for normal day-to-day-scripting?

Parrot VM v1.3.0 Released

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