Welcome to the Parrot Developer Wiki

This wiki is a workplace for developers of the Parrot virtual machine and related languages, tools, and applications. If you aren't a developer, you may be looking for  the main Parrot website.

The current status and plan is available at the Parrot Roadmap.

HLL Resources

If you are developing (or thinking of developing) a high-level language on top of Parrot, the HLL Resources page is for you.

Weekly Focus

If you have resources to contribute to Parrot this week, please ask on the mailing list or in the IRC channel if you need assistance. Our tasks are:

• HLLInteroperability (talk to Tene and pmichaud)
• improving the Parrot debugger documentation (talk to dukeleto)
• RTEMS port (dukeleto)
• Converting the test suite from Perl 5 to PIR (dukeleto)
• working on Parrot standard library
• building a framework for testing bytecode
• pruning C structures (talk to chromatic)
• security subsystem, PDD 18 (dukeleto)
• deprecated vtable function removal (cotto)
• cleanup the build process (coke)

AllHackathons

 Latest Release

Also see ArchivedNewsEvents.

Current Development Priorities

This is a list of tasks that were priorities for the 1.9.0 release in December.

• ProfilingRuncore
• HllInteroperability
• Installation

see DevelopmentPriorities for potential development priorities for the upcoming supported release.

Contributing to Parrot

You can contribute to Parrot in many ways:

• NewParrotDeveloperGuide
• Building Parrot on your favorite ListOfPlatforms
  • Perhaps contribute a buildslave on your favorite platform for the parrot BuildBot
• Adding new features  SEE TODO
• Smoking Parrot
  • SmolderTaskList
• Adding tests (see the  recent smoke reports) and CodeCoverageStatistics
• Checking, updating and adding  documentation
• Perl 5 Components
  • Perl 5 Components: Clean Up TODO Items
  • Perl 5 Components: Test Coverage Of Configuration And Build Tools
• C Components?
• Fixing GC Bugs
• WriteTests
• DeveloperTools
• TreeUnit?
• Fix bugs that Coverity has found

Development Work Pages

Tasklists And Projects

GCTasklist	IOTasklist	CallingConventionsTasklist	StringsTasklist
NamespaceTasklist	CageTasklist	DocsTasklist	DebuggerTaskList
ArrayTasklist	Pdd30InstallTasklist	PMCUnionDeprecationTasklist	KeysRefactor
PIRCDevelopment	APIFuncRenaming	JITRewrite	MakeEveryPMCAnObject
NCITasklist?	CopyingGarbageCollector	CFunctionDocs	BuildTaskList
FreezeThawTasklist	ExceptionRefactor

Long-Term Plans

L1Recap	Lorito	ContextPMCUses?
LlvmJitExperiment

Project Information

ParrotCommunityKnowledge	BranchDescriptions	BigProjectIdeas	GitObjections
Deprecation

Parrot Ecosystem

ModuleEcosystem

Modules

Languages

Resources

TapTinder - continuous integration for Parrot on various platforms	PerlSixTesting
WhereIsIt - links to other resources
Parrot Dictionary - opcodes, pmc types, and other definitions
Parrot/Rakudo Code Browser/XREF tool

Miscellaneous

Glossy Brochure	ParrotFaces
ParrotAdvantages	ParrotVirtualAppliance	ParrotQuotes	ParrotVersionNumbers

Wiki 101

Please feel free to add or modify pages — even this one — as you see fit. That's the idea of a wiki.

Simply click on the "Edit this page" link at the bottom of the page. You need to Register or Login before you can edit pages.

Starting Points

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• WikiFormatting -- Wiki formatting commands
• RecentChanges -- a list of most recent changes to the wiki
•  The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
•  Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.