Key Parrot Goals

• Provide a runtime environment with built-in support for common features of dynamic languages
• Compilation to bytecode
• Memory management
• Regular expressions
• Objects
• Unicode
• Threads / asynchronous events
• Native calling interface (e.g., to C)
• JIT compilation
• Continuations / coroutines
• Introspection

• Robust tools for implementing language translators

• Language interoperability