Perl 5 has been usable and improved on continuously over the last 20+ years. Raku / Perl 6 has been the R&D project it set out to be with interesting new featu

Perl 5 has been usable and improved on continuously over the last 20+ years. Raku / Perl 6 has been the R&D project it set out to be with interesting new features and smoothed out syntax. You can use either freely as meets your needs. If there's a "debacle" here it's the misunderstanding.