Parrot is just one of several VM's. I doubt it will be too successful with its current shape and progress
And we don't care that you doubt it. However, we'd prefer that you didn't rubbish the efforts of the tireless developers in question.

Even with other VM's, the concept of sharing among languages isn't very realistic today - or put in this way, people are not using VM's that way in practice.
.Net folks in the C# and VB.net camps use each other's libraries every day.

F# seems to be gaining popularity (I'm not an OCAML fan)... many mention using F# libraries from C#.

There are quite a few languages (partly-dynamic and static) running on the JVM... all users of those implementions end up eventually using Java-based libraries.

If you're talking about "Joe/Jane Sixpack" writing in multiple languages... that'll probably never happen. He/She can't even use his/her current language to full advantage... multiple languages (some call it "the best tool for the job") will just be too much for such developers.

For the rest of the developer community, there is interest in writing software using multiple languages. It's especially useful in diverse teams of software developers. Re-use of libraries written in other languages is already common, no need to speculate.

-David

In reply to Re^7: RubyForge vs CPAN: Is Perl's Killer Feature Being Usurped? by erroneousBollock
in thread RubyForge vs CPAN: Is Perl's Killer Feature Being Usurped? by Anonymous Monk

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