a worthwhile replacement for Perl 5.

I still don't get all this endeavour to re-write P5 in P6. P5 is perfectly embeddable.

Just embed perl5xx.dll/.so into the P6 compiler and provide:

1. P6 built-in(s) to access p5 subroutines:

   Say something like:

   use P5 qw[ LWP::Simple ];
   ...
   
   my $url :String = <...some P6 source>;
   my $content = p5call( "LWP::Simple::get( $url )" );
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   ).
2. P6 proxies for P5 objects:

   Say:

   use P5 qw[  DBI DBD::Pg ];
   
   ...
   my $dbi = P5Object( "DBI->connect( $dataSource, $userName, $userAuth, 
   +\%attrs" ); );
   my $sth = $dbi->prepare( 'SOME SQL HERE' );
   ...
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Full compatibility at a stroke, and full P5 performance (within the p5 code), and a small hit through the thunking layer.

How hard could it be to write the thunking layer? (It's gotta be easier than recreating P5 + XS + everything else.)

I effectively do exactly this in my 15-line Perl5 REPL.