It's a big day for Perl 6, for Parrot 1.0 has been released. Parrot is the virtual machine on which Rakudo Perl is being built. Parrot 1.0 means a more stable platform on which the Rakudo builders can continue their implementation of Perl 6.
We're getting closer and closer to the top of the hill!
Congratulations to everyone who has worked on Parrot over all these years! I believe that eventually Parrot will become widely used as a foundation that enables new ways of programming, and makes it easier and faster for creative and intelligent programmers to make their ideas reality. Props are deserved all around!