Here's my take on it: Hackers or not, we're all still human, and experience emotions like frustration and disappointment. Back when perl6 was first being disc

Here's my take on it: Hackers or not, we're all still human, and experience emotions like frustration and disappointment. Back when perl6 was first being discussed (what was it, 15 years ago now?), probably a lot of us were getting a ton of mileage out of the remarkable perl5 ecosystem. When perl6 started getting promoted, it seemed like it took a lot of the wind out of the perl5 sails, like an Osborne effect for a programming language. When the years ticked by and nothing came of it, and lots of moved onto other languages, I imagine a lot of people still remembered being disappointed at how the perl5->6 situation played out. Probably some of the negativity is just remnants of that, because, like I said, we're all still human. And schadenfreude, I'm sure, plays into it, like when the overhyped disappointments Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever were released... Anyway, just one man's opinion, of course...