[bachmeier]

None of this makes sense IMO. The point of Perl 7 was not to allow breaking changes. It was to send a signal that Perl was alive and that the Perl 6 messup was behind them. Then two years later they announce that there's still no Perl 7 because they're still working on Perl 5.

[rurban]

They are not working on perl 5, neither a perl 7. The biggest excitement might be the design of their new object system. But if you look at it and compare it to the design of their OO designed in 2002 (for their perl 6) it's a serious throwback. not even talking about their inability of a proper implementation.

in the meantime I've implemented that, plus types, plus proper signatures, plus unchecked arrays when safe, plus an integrated ffi plus tons more features.

their is no development, only maintainance. plus lot of internal fights. plus a CoC, which was used to eliminate the only remaining developer, because he dared to critice the stakeholders which blocked progress, and still continue to make the codebase worse.

the less the work, the more the fights.

[unixhero]

For all his agreeableness, maybe Larry Wall left behind a chaos of unsolved semantics. Perhaps discussions they never really recovered from. I do not know the story, and this is speculative only.

[nocman]

From what I've gathered, Larry was simply focused on Perl 6 (which became "Raku" in Oct of 2019). It seems to me that he just wanted to let others handle the new development in Perl 5 rather than being directly involved all of the time. I don't think he has done much at all with Perl 5 for quite a long time.