Re: There is a balance between completely abandoning old users (e.g. Perl 5 to Perl 6) Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org https

Re: There is a balance between completely abandoning old users (e.g. Perl 5 to Perl 6) Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). In the original design of Perl 6, a source-level compatibility layer ("use v5") was envisioned that should allow Perl 5 source code to run inside of Perl 6. So the plan was to actually not abandon old users. In my opinion, this failed for two reasons: 1. Most of Perl 5 actually depends on XS code, the hastily devised and not very well thought out interface to C code of Perl 5. Being able to run Perl 5 source code in Perl 6 doesn't bring you much, unless you have a complete stack free of XS. Although some people tried to achieve that (with many PurePerl initiatives), this really never materialized. 2. Then when the Inline::Perl5 module came along, allowing seamless integration of a Perl 5 interpreter inside Perl 6, using Perl 5 modules inside of Perl 6 as if they were Perl 6 modules, it basically nailed the coffin in which the "use v5" initiative found itself already in. And now they're considered different languages after the rename to Raku, dividing already limited resources. I guess that's the way of life.