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by pjc50 332 days ago
The 5 -> 6 transition took out a lot of its momentum, and it was gradually eclipsed by two other dynamic weakly typed languages which were less alarming to read: Python and Javascript.
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"Less alarming to read". Sir, that is beautifully said.
Sad thing is Perl6/Raku is a nice kitchen-sync language with some pretty sophisticated constructs!

Unfortunately it has no mind-share.