> the fact that Perl 6 developers gave up completely trying to get people to upgrade from Perl 5 and just rebranded it as a new language instead This statement

> the fact that Perl 6 developers gave up completely trying to get people to upgrade from Perl 5 and just rebranded it as a new language instead This statement does not do justice to the process that led to the renaming of "Perl 6" to "The Raku Programming Language". If you are interested in the process, https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/81 will give you some of the discussion that happened online.