On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:59:21AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > > On 10/18/2012 09:02 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: > >Something (PyPy et al) got me wondering, is it a goal in the Perl > >community before too long to have a (compiling) implementation of Perl 6 > >written entirely in Perl 6? > > A fair amount of the two major Perl 6 compilers, Rakudo and Niecza, > are already written in Perl 6. > Both also contain runtime code written in the "native" underlying > language (C/C#), and plans to get rid of that are not realistic > right now.
As a quick data point: Rakudo's codebase (compiler+CORE setting) currently contains around 4,309 lines of C code (*.c, *.h, *.pmc) and 24,406 lines of Perl 6 code (*.pm, *.nqp). So, 85% of Rakudo is written in Perl 6 and 15% in C-ish languages. Pm
