NQP, short for "Not Quite Perl", is a lightweight Perl 6-like environment for virtual machines. NQP is designed to be very small (as compared with, say, perl6 or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries for MoarVM, the JVM, and others. By default, support for MoarVM is built. The JVM backend is experimental and requires JDK 8. BACKENDS=moar,jvm ./nqp.SlackBuild Run the tests with: MAKETEST=yes ./nqp.SlackBuild