All of this sounds great. And by great, I mean: brilliant; fantastic; amazing; extraordinary; just what the doctor ordered. I intend no hint of 'faint praise' here. But...

Does any of this actually work? Anywhere?

Each time a new parrot comes out I dutifully download it and go in exploration of the infrastructure to support these constructs, and I come up short.

And every now and again I pop over to PDD 25 and look for changes, but rarely notice any. It still talks the talk of supporting every concurrency model known to man, and then some, but comes up way short of explaining how it's going to achieve this feat.

And that's essentially why I stopped following the P6 lists. There is an aweful lot of talk about what P6 will do. Discussion after excruciating discussion about almost irrelevant minutia of what perl 6 will do. But almost nothing, and fiery defence for there being nothing, when the question is asked: how will P6/Parrot pull this off. (Not to mention the now sad joke of "by Christmas" for the question: when.)

I want to believe. I really, really want to believe...