Re: Rakudo on JVM?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Stephen Wilcoxon 
wrote:

> I see in the release notes for Rakudo 2017.04, it basically says not to
> use JVM backend.  Why is this?  Has support for the JVM been dropped?


Not dropped; it's just that the JVM backend has always been more difficult,
and is often (as now) broken because changes at the rakudo or nqp level
require backend changes to match and there's fewer people working on the
JVM backend. (Yes, JVM is popular, but JVM bytecode is kinda ridiculous and
difficult to use for anything but Java or Java-derived languages like
Scala.) It's hoped the next release will be more usable.

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Rakudo on JVM?

[Stephen Wilcoxon]

I see in the release notes for Rakudo 2017.04, it basically says not to use
JVM backend.  Why is this?  Has support for the JVM been dropped?  I hope
not as it seems like the most valuable platform for Perl6.

For instance, you could use Perl6 JVM on AWS and get support but Perl6
MoarVM would not be given support (Perl is not supported officially (Perl5
or Perl6) but JVM is supported.

If it has not been effectively dropped, what are the plans for JVM support?