Some good news for Perl6, the Mozilla foundation is offering a grant for a full time developer on the Perl 6 compiler.¹ The grant is a great example of the good that can be done with Mozilla’s windfall.²

1. Absurdly large set of operators and implicit variables here we come! ↩
2. Well, other than potentially making Firefox and Thunderbird better ↩

An interesting thread on the Perl6 internals list: Is Parrot 1.0 too late?. Talks about how Parrot is still relevant and why.

Inside Parrot’s compiler tools, an O’Reilly blog post about the Perl-inspired VM tool chain.