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NV: The JVM has been primarily designed with statically typed
languages in mind. The same goes for the CLR, and that is why the DLR
(build on top of CLR) came into existence. Have you at some point
considered the DLR (maybe combined with Mono instead of the CLR) or
JVM’s Dynalink, both of which admittedly have a good Meta Object
protocol infrastructure, as a potential backend to Rakudo?
JW: One interesting thing to note about Perl 6 is that it’s a gradually typed language, which means the considerations are a little different from if it was dynamically typed. In that sense, VMs which explicitly seek to do both static and dynamic typing well are especially interesting for Perl 6.
I can’t speak too well to the DLR, but I do know that Niecza, the Perl 6 on CLR implementation, went the way of not using it for a range of reasons. By contrast, the JVM’s invokedynamic instruction has been rather interesting from a Perl 6 implementation point of view.
Dynalink is certainly of interest too, in so far as it seems to provide an interesting path to enabling calling Perl 6 code from Java. I’d rather reuse an existing solution than reinvent that wheel. I need to dig into it more deeply to be really sure.
full interview on Josettorama
JW: One interesting thing to note about Perl 6 is that it’s a gradually typed language, which means the considerations are a little different from if it was dynamically typed. In that sense, VMs which explicitly seek to do both static and dynamic typing well are especially interesting for Perl 6.
I can’t speak too well to the DLR, but I do know that Niecza, the Perl 6 on CLR implementation, went the way of not using it for a range of reasons. By contrast, the JVM’s invokedynamic instruction has been rather interesting from a Perl 6 implementation point of view.
Dynalink is certainly of interest too, in so far as it seems to provide an interesting path to enabling calling Perl 6 code from Java. I’d rather reuse an existing solution than reinvent that wheel. I need to dig into it more deeply to be really sure.
full interview on Josettorama
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