I dunno. If you walked into a sophomore-level computer science lecture 15 years ago, most of the people there would either have heard of Perl or be proficient i

I dunno. If you walked into a sophomore-level computer science lecture 15 years ago, most of the people there would either have heard of Perl or be proficient in it themselves. Now? I'd be amazed if a single student had written a line of Perl, or ever heard of Raku. That simply doesn't compare to where Python, Java, or even PHP are in the popular mind, IMO. I would call that something of a fiasco, frankly. Market share is everything for a programming language. The game isn't zero-sum, but it's close; there's only so many developers with so many hours to create libraries, guides, new software.