absolutely, though to be precise you'll want to compile to QASTrees in the
NQP environment (not to NQP code itself).


On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net>wrote:

> So here's a question ...
>
> Is it now, or should it soon be, reasonable to treat NQP as its own entity
> that is a build target for a programming language, instead of treating
> Parrot as a build target?
>
> After getting the reference implementation of my language working over
> Perl 5 (because it is mature and well known to me), I had for awhile been
> planning to use Parrot as the next major implementation target, by way of
> NQP, but it is seeming now that it would be best for me to simply target
> NQP in its own right, and then I would get something that runs on whatever
> NQP runs on at the time, which might be more mature on the JVM or a
> non-Parrot backend for all I know.
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
>

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