I was reading this post, regarding porting rakudo to different platforms.

Well after reading up a little bit upon nqp what I could understand is that its basically awk like utility(matches a pattern and executes something for that match) with grammar support and facilities to generate AST. While little documentation is there on NQP, understanding how its built is itself a little difficult. Reason being its bootstrapped, so I have to understand it first, to understand it. Which I don't.

Now when its mean't that rakudo will run on v8, ideally it means writing NQP to bootstrap itself(In JavaScript) along with generating JavaScript code. How exactly is this entire bootstrapping done? Generation of JavaScript code(I understand parrot has facilities to do it,but in v8??)? Can somebody please enlighten.

In reply to Backend diversity for Rakudo by Anonymous Monk

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