parrot-dev Digest, Vol 58, Issue 9
Bart Wiegmans
bartwiegmans at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 15:05:41 UTC 2013
Hi all,
What patrick said, is of course very true. Nobody officially said
anything. That hardly seems the point though, does it?
The sheer, hard facts of the matter are as following:
* Parrot __should__ have been the de facto VM for dynamic languages. It isn't.
* Dynamic language interpreters have proliferated (pypy, rubinius, etc)
* There was a big, important project that absolutely depended on
parrot. It doesn't anymore.
* The developers of that big, important project have written something
that can only be considered a replacement for parrot, even if it isn't
done yet.
Now, you may interpret this it in any way you wish. But at least one
is that parrot has lost a large part of its relevancy. Relevancy, by
lack of (say) money, is what an open source project lives by. Why
would new people join parrot over pypy, moarvm, rubinius, or any of
the other projects?
Again, parrot is a useful project. But I don't know what the futue holds for it.
Kind regards,
Bart Wiegmans
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