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mrxenu

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mrxenu··on Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video]
I don't quite get your point. MoarVM was created specifically for Perl 6, it is written in C and just works. JVM support in Rakudo is just added bonus and you are free to ignore it (like most users do).

For 99% users "Perl 6" will mean just "Rakudo + MoarVM" which seems to be exactly what you're asking for.

Note that MoarVM is nothing like Parrot. Parrot was a failed project which intended to bring universal VM for all dynamic languages. Obviously, too wide project scope resulted in broken and unmaintainable implementation.

MoarVM is made just for Perl 6 and intends to avoid repeating its predecessor's mistakes.