This is the right decision. The primary reason anyone still writes Perl is because they already have a lot of existing code and dependencies in the language. Ba

This is the right decision. The primary reason anyone still writes Perl is because they already have a lot of existing code and dependencies in the language. Backwards compatibility is a critical feature for a language in that position. I doubt anyone would write a greenfield project in Perl when numerous other platforms are available. Raku is there if you like the design philosophy of Perl but don't need to worry about backwards compatibility.