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This looks like a huge project, even with AI help... I have a sweet spot for perl but I'm honestly not sure if the current community has the bandwidth and interest to sustain an alternative implementation. At the very least it should be ported to MacOS too. Breaking with XS is a bold decision. Best of luck though!!

I'm kind of curious how it compares to some of the current concurrency solutions for Perl because there is a bunch of them now:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Coro

https://metacpan.org/pod/MCE

https://metacpan.org/pod/OpenMP

https://metacpan.org/dist/UV

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