I think my wording "abandoning" was more inflammatory than I would have liked. And I didn't want to call out or target Perl 6 / Raku. What I meant to convey was

I think my wording "abandoning" was more inflammatory than I would have liked. And I didn't want to call out or target Perl 6 / Raku. What I meant to convey was that the language team behind Perl 6 (as it was known before the rebranding) made a decision that it would be a new language and not an evolution of the existing language. It was the first example in my mind, one most people would recognize, that anchored one side of the continuum I was describing. I assume there are better examples (or worse offenders) but I don't know of any off hand.