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by kbenson 3940 days ago
The alternative to v5 is Inline::Perl5[1], which instead of defining a mode that understands Perl 5 syntax and maps it to the underlying Perl 6 runtime, actually embeds a Perl 5 interpreter and handles all the back and forth automatically. The benefit of this approach is that XS modules still work (you can use Per 5's DBI in Perl 6 using Perl 6 syntax).

1: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5