Any idea how long ECMAScript 6 has been in development? Well, it used to be called ECMAScript 4 and it was started in 1999, a whole year before Perl 6. People

Any idea how long ECMAScript 6 has been in development? Well, it used to be called ECMAScript 4 and it was started in 1999, a whole year before Perl 6. People use this as a negative all the time, or as "the reason" it hasn't picked up, but the rules of software dev are simple: ship fast, ship efficient, ship cheap -- pick two. It's FLOSS, so one choice is already made: ship cheap. Glad that Perl 6 went with efficiency over getting to market quickly. Spend some time with the language and then go find me anything that comes close to covering the same number of programming paradigms, let alone the coverage of the standard library, then tell me that it missed its shipping target. tl;dr -- 15 years after it started and it still manages to be more featureful than anything else out there.