Yeah but they finished the damn thing.

You've utterly missed the point. It being, if they had a task the same size the Perl 6 devs have and went at the same rate they did to finish their Python revamp, it would have taken them 200 years. It's like criticizing the builders of the Empire State Building for being so damn slow because someone else made a sandwich faster. Oh, okay! A house is a better metaphor. But not as funny. sudo snap