| > Perl 6 was treated as the successor of Perl 5 In 2000, for all intents and purposes, Perl 6 was the successor of Perl 5. And one of the reasons the project was started, was because Perl 5 was already dying at that point. Not only losing the web server competition to PHP, but also from internal battles, close to civil war. The internal battles ceased for a while when the Perl 6 process was started. But around 2008, it became a war between Perl 5 and Perl 6. To squelch that, the sister language meme was born. But that just meant a cease-fire, rather than peace, and the dissent and resentments continued to fester under the blanket of the sister language meme. Until 2019, when the rename of Perl 6 to the Raku Programming Language happened. Factions within Perl 5 lost their common enemy, and fighting could start all over again. Which caused at least one pumpking to resign. To mark Perl 6 as the cause for Perl 5's demise, is incorrect. Perl 6 was one of the effects of Perl 5's demise. Meanwhile the Raku Programming Language continues to build a programming language of the future. You can check out the Rakudo Weekly News if you want to stay up-to-date on developments https://rakudoweekly.blog |