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I cannot agree more with what you wrote, I think this is entirely true. More than a decade has passed since they started writing Perl6. The problem is they also had a lot of implementation, instead of doing some centralized common effort, they spread like fishes when approaching obstacles in a stream. Here's some quick statistics on the number of commits 8|Allison Randal 8|Julian Albo 10|Audrey Tang 13|mberends 15|Leopold Toetsch 16|James E Keenan (Jim) 17|Paul Cochrane 22|Andy Lester 35|Jonathan Scott Duff 35|Kyle Hasselbacher 38|Martin Berends 38|Mark Glines a.k.a. Infinoid 40|Cory Spencer 44|David Romano 45|Will "Coke" Coleda 52|Bernhard Schmalhofer 65|chromatic 97|Stephen Weeks 118|Carl Masak 229|Moritz A Lenz 232|Jerry Gay a.k.a. particle 429|Solomon Foster 477|jnthn 536|Moritz Lenz 796|Patrick R. Michaud 818|pmichaud 1040|Jonathan Worthington It's pretty clear who the main people are here. Maybe it's also a problem of competency. Maybe they don't master all the elements needed to write a language. I don't know. But I'm 100% there are reasons for Perl6 not being production-ready yet. What is interesting to note is that these people are carrying out unpaid work. That means they have fragmented time slices which are used to implement Perl6. Again that's something very important. Also, because it's unpaid work, maybe it's not taken very seriously and the mentality of the whole project is something like yeah, we got this experiment going, and it's going to continue to be an experiment for a looong long time In reply to Re^5: The current state of Perl 6
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