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by niroze 3512 days ago
Not only is it like a totally different language than Perl 5, the most critical problem is that it simply wasn't popular.

All it would take is buzz... and millennials. Lots of millennials.

Generally, products that are the most popular aren't always the best. Better to just accept that now, especially before you invest much time in the space :)