Well Perl 6 tried to change too much at once and now the language is pretty stagnant, for better and worse. PHP's own v6 was something of a disaster, but the de

Well Perl 6 tried to change too much at once and now the language is pretty stagnant, for better and worse. PHP's own v6 was something of a disaster, but the demand for PHP remained strong enough to keep trying. Possibly because of WordPress. (IMO Perl also kind of died because of too many ways to do the same thing. In practice it meant every code base becomes bespoke.)