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And that, in my view, is the crux of the problem. Even if I don't want to know any technical details, I have to "write" programs in Perl 6, "compile" them with Rakudo, and "run" them with Parrot.

FWIW parrot is supposed to be completely transparent in thhis process (once it's installed) - you just run your program with whatever executable the compiler provides.