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MoarVM 2024.02

The MoarVM team is proud to release version 2024.02, the latest release of the Moar Virtual Machine.

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What is MoarVM?

Short for "Metamodel On A Runtime", MoarVM is a modern virtual machine built for the Rakudo compiler implementing the Raku Programming Language, and the NQP Compiler Toolchain. MoarVM is used by the majority of Raku programmers. Highlights include:

  • Great Unicode support, with strings represented at grapheme level
  • Dynamic analysis of running code to identify hot functions and loops, and perform a range of optimizations, including type specialization and inlining
  • Support for threads, a range of concurrency control constructs, and asynchronous sockets, timers, processes, and more
  • Generational, parallel, garbage collection
  • Support for numerous language features, including first class functions, exceptions, continuations, runtime loading of code, big integers and interfacing with native libraries