... we see no other way to implement large-scale changes that need to be implemented in order to advance Rakudo.

I find it difficult to believe that porting 6model to multiple backends is essential to make Rakudo usable for end users in 2011 or 2012. "Fun" about sums it up from my perspective.

What would you do instead?

What any other project would do if it wanted to convince its target audience that it can produce a relevant and usable product: ask them what they need, then make it so.

What I want: libraries, documentation, stability, regular improvements on a fixed schedule, and protection from Morton's fork with regard to choosing between running an abandoned old version or getting performance improvements at the cost of severe regressions.

Perhaps that means making something like Blizkost work (and keeping it working) instead of checking off tickboxes like "auto-parallelizing metaoperators" and "custom operators" and "hygenic macros".

In reply to Re^6: Waiting for a Product, not a Compiler by chromatic
in thread Moose - my new religion by jdrago999

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