Re: Why do we test a build using g++?

The best person to ask would be Chip. I just pinged him; maybe he'll have some insights.

In the mean time, my recollection was that it was stopped by:

* C++ being too feature-light at the time
* Chip knowing more about Perl guts than every other living person at the time
* Lack of support from p5p
* Perl6 sucking a lot of the air out of the room

On Sat, Jul 4, 2026, at 18:44, Karl Williamson via perl5-porters wrote:
> I've harbored some ambitions to convert portions of the core to be 
> written in C++.
>
> Can someone explain why Topaz (which attempted something like this) 
> failed or post a link.
>
> Have events moved on so the languages are too disparate for this to be 
> feasible?