Why should I spent one minute on coding for Perl 6 when I can actually do new stuff and solve my problems with an already good language which I don't have to bugfix (Perl 5).

If everyone had the same attitude, there'd be no PerlMonks, no CPAN, no Perl 6, and no Perl 5, to name a few projects which exist due to volunteer effort.

I know pretty well what happened the last 6 years.

If you think, as you wrote:

Perl 6 didn't evolve, they threw away most of Perl 5, maybe except the sigil syntax, also things were promised that never were realized or could actually be realized, which formed a community of dreamers, following the dream of the ultimate programming language. And currently it looks like those dreamers weren't able to deliver _anything_ at least remotely stable, except a very fuzzy specification and a test suite.

... then I don't believe -- at all -- that you know what happened the past few years.


In reply to Re^4: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl? by chromatic
in thread How much is Perl6 the community rewrite of Perl? by zby

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