Raku (Perl 6)

“Which gave up and became its own language, its own level of confusion.”

“What might be considered as a failure case is Perl 5 -> Perl 6”

“Perl 6 was terribly planned and took bloody ages to get anywhere.”

“they gave up on Perl 6, admitted it was a mistake, and renamed all that work”

“Perl 6 showed what happens when you do something like that.”

“the Perl 6 redesign took so long that many people gave up”

“perl 6 was delayed and that might have hurt the language”

“disastrously optimistic declaration about soon-to-be major uprgade to Perl 6 which in reality will take 15+ years”

“perl6 helped kill it by making perl5 stagnate”

“The extremely wishy washy and decade long development track they put themselves on finally destroyed any notion of ever even returning to Perl.”

“developed for years without an actual implementation to keep them grounded”

“Perl 6 did massive damage to the community mainly because it was so different that it looked like a fantasy language.”

“Perl 6 was a wall that Perl 5 would never move beyond.”

“just to wait for Perl 6, which never came”

“It was so disappointing to watch them bike shed Perl 6 endlessly while Python was gradually taking over.”

“the project was so badly managed that it killed off both Perl 5 and Perl 6”

“It certainly has lots of nice features, too.”

“The long period of time between perl 5 development stopping and perl 6/Raku being ready for production made the transition much, much rougher”

“Perl 6 would have been named Rapture or Raku from day one, Perl would have been fine.”

“Perl6 basically did not exist for real for many, many years”

“For me, expressiveness is fundamental. And perl 6 gives me that.”

“But it insists on living online which necessitates a hosted search function. Which is always broken.”

“the perl 6 mess and associated sentiment made it look worse.”

“I still don't get it. It's still a problem.”

“the documentation's search function is regularly broken”

“Then he kept adding more shiny things and I lost interest.”

“That was some self-inflicted damage.”

“A crazy jump that was Perl 6 was not survivable, even though Raku may be a fine language.”

“"PERL6 will be gloriously filled with rainbows, butterflies, will be backwards incompatible”

“says more about perl 6's insane development schedule than python's advantages”

“The insane lead time of Perl 6 to even get to a point of backwards incompatibility was it for me.”

“no implementation of a language that anyone felt comfortable using for any real development”

“it needed them delivered in smaller chunks over the years rather than as a big decade long”

“Why they didn't do that with 6 was entirely bizarre.”

“Perl 6 was developed in a way that didn't address the broad concerns of the Perl community”

“the confusion around 6 completely destroyed almost everyone's enthusiasm”

“The backwards incompatibility of Perl 6 absolutely killed Perl.”

“As history has shown, this didn't work out well for anyone”

“Perl 6 development went on for a very long time and got nothing but bad press”

“all the talent and effort started being wasted on making Perl 6 the bestest”