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> What if it had taken Nintendo 35 years to release the next GameBoy

More like Nintendo took 35 years to release the "VideoGameGirl", a product with a completely different name, and then suddenly a bunch of die-hard GameBoy fans are complaining that this separate product, even if it shares origin with the GameBoy, somehow doesn't even run games made for a different console.

That's how this Perl/Raku navelgazing feels like to me.

[librasteve]

well the whole point of the rename is to sidestep the Perl vs. Raku navelgazing

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Indeed, but I guess the Perl/Raku haters don't have anything of actual meat in their complaints, so off bike-shedding about the most trivial shit we go.

[stakhanov]

> Perl/Raku haters don't have anything of actual meat in their complaints

For a random complaint of mine (one of many) see [1]. Using Perl as my main programming language for 3.5 years has given me plenty of "meat" to throw around; I just don't want to bore people with it, nor do I want to re-live the trauma.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42460014

[DonHopkins]

Larry Ellison should buy it, then there would be no need for technical arguments any more, just like Java. You could just say "lawnmower" to end the debate on ethical grounds.