Brian D Foy wrote a pretty good post on this. https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ Essentially, it i

Brian D Foy wrote a pretty good post on this. https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ Essentially, it is just perl 5.32 with more modern defaults. They will keep evolving the language. Perl 5 isn't going anywhere.