September 2017
Beginner
402 pages
9h 52m
English
Content preview from Perl 6 Deep Dive
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Perlito
Perlito is another very interesting example of a project of building a Perl 6 compiler. It was aimed at cross-compiling Perl 5 or Perl 6 to one of these languages—JavaScript, Java, Go, Python, Ruby, or Lisp. You can find the project's repository at https://github.com/fglock/Perlito.
Perlito offers a web interface to compile the subset of Perl 6 in the browser. It compiles the code in Perl 6 to JavaScript and executes it immediately. This page is available at http://fglock.github.io/Perlito/perlito/perlito6.html. This project covers the Perl 6 specification only partially, but it may still be used to create various online educational systems for both Perl 5 and 6.