(I retitled and moved this content from Re^3: [perl6] Complex Attribute Validation and/or Triggers because I felt it warranted its own post.)

»»» This post is about alpha status Perl 6, not rock solid Perl 5 «««

»ö« . o { "Wouldn't it be fun to mix Rakudo Perl 6 with another lang or three, calling out to each other, passing objects back and forth, subclassing a class defined in another lang, until the whole thing dies a horrible death which you report back to #perl6?" }

• Inline::Perl5. Stefan Seifert (nine on IRC) wrote the first version of this breakthru module in September last year. It lets one write Perl 5 code in Perl 6; use P5 modules (aiui most of CPAN should work; some exceptions); treat P5 objects as if they were P6 ones; subclass a P5 class in P6; and more. It's suddenly become possible to do stuff like write a Catalyst controller in Perl 6.

• Inline::Perl6. This new CPAN module is the converse of Inline::Perl5, allowing use of Perl 6 in Perl 5 code by embedding a MoarVM based Rakudo Perl 6 in Perl 5. Also created by Stefan Seifert.

• Inline::Python for Perl 6. Also recently created by Stefan Seifert. (Note that he's the co-maintainer of Inline::Python for Perl 5.)

• p6-Inline-C by Tobias Leich (FROGGS on IRC).

• Inline::Lua for Perl 6. "Both Lua 5.1 and LuaJIT are supported." Started a few weeks ago by raydiak (author of Pray, a ray tracing engine written in Perl 6).

• The NativeCall interface. Makes it easy for non C hackers to wrap C libs without need for a C compiler or C headers on the target system. (Will become even easier when a C parser in Perl 6 starts parsing headers to automatically construct bindings.) NativeCall is being driven forward by Tobias Leich (FROGGS on IRC). His most recent work is adding support for C++ libs too.

• Use Java libs in Perl 6 code. Pepe Schwarz (psch on IRC) is leading the Java work.

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