&gt; Rakudo and MoarVM clearly aren&#x27;t what we, as potential Perl 6 developers and users, want.<p>Why not? A core implementation with its own VM (MRI+YARV for Ruby from 1.9 on, for instance) seems to be pretty common for languages.<p>&gt; Like I said, we want the Perl 5, Ruby, Python, Lua, and Tcl type of experience.<p>But that&#x27;s exactly what Rakudo + MoarVM offers. For the Ruby comparison, Rakudo is analogous to MRI, MoarVM is analogous to YARV.<p>&gt; We want there to be one consistent implementation that&#x27;s widely used and trusted.<p>And why can&#x27;t Rakudo be that implementation?<p>&gt; We want something proven and familiar.<p>Well, clearly, it won&#x27;t be <i>proven</i> till its been around for a while in production use, and won&#x27;t be <i>familiar</i> till you&#x27;ve used it for a while. But I don&#x27;t see any reason that Rakudo (which is used for some things exposed to the public now) can&#x27;t be the thing that ends up &quot;proven and familiar&quot;?<p>&gt; Unfortunately, we aren&#x27;t getting that with Rakudo and MoarVM<p>In what concrete way is that true?