Parrot 1.0.0 Released

outZider writes "Parrot 1.0.0 was released last night! The release of Parrot 1.0 provides the first "stable" release to developers, with a supportable, stable API for language developers to build from. For those who don't know, Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages like Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, and is best known as the virtual machine for Rakudo, the reference implementation of Perl 6."

Comments

Re:Perl 6 reference implementation

[outZider]

Surprisingly. The idea is to do a full language specification, so there can be many implementations of a language, similar to how Java (theoretically) works. This is also why there is an absolutely huge, yet incomplete, test suite. More tests are passing weekly, but more tests are being generated weekly.

Re:From the Release Announcement

[chromatic]

What other reason is there for this inane drivel being reproduced in the release announcement?

Tolkein didn't write a line of Perl 5 either, yet Larry quotes him in his release announcements. Epigraphs are long-established literary traditions.

Re:Compiler for Perl?

[hardburn]

Perl 5 isn't really bytecode at all. It basically just walks the parse tree directly.

Perl 6/Parrot is bytecode just as those from Python or Java have come to expect. Perl 5 could be reimplemented this way, but nobody seems to want to bother.

If your goal is to obfuscate your code to prevent people from copying it, please give up.

Re:VM question

[VGPowerlord]

I'm not very good with thedetailed explanation, as I am not a Parrot developer, but Parrot's VM is geared toward dynamically typed languages like Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP. The JVM and CLR are geared toward static typed languages, which is why dynamic language ports to the CLR generally require code changes and cleanup to work properly under those environments.

[Citation needed]

So, any Jython/IronPython or JRuby/IronRuby people around to share their insights?