>IMO, this is more FUD ("Nobody is talking about Perl 6"). Here's an off-the-cuff and horribly incomplete list for 2009, in no particular order:

Sorry, but how many of these posts are talking about the complexity behind Perl 6?

I know some of the people and read a lot from them, I also read Dan Sugalski's blog from start till burnout.

I suppose most of these posts have the aim to keep people interested and get them involved and NOT to lower expectations or criticizing the complexity.

This is for sure a fantastic project, but we should start getting realistic about it.

The Perl community could have massive boost just by making a big release with "boring features"¹ but could then easily challenge the "sex appeal" from Ruby and Python.

Just like a plane is followed regularly by a bigger plane to keep the market interested and not by a rocket.

And I'm sure this major release would

a) put lots of pressure away from your team and

b) build a bridge to your project by incorporating concepts

c) therefore push the further development of it!

¹) Nota bene: I don't say YOU are to implement these boring features!