Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by zoffix222 on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:11PM (#12893329)

For the last year, I've seen you several times re-iterate that point that just-if and if-only the handful of volunteers who drive this project made some sort of a massive media spectacle then everyone and their brother would be using Perl 6 these days.

Sorry, but that's just wishful thinking. We don't have infinite resources or infinite number of volunteers. Maybe instead of endless critique, you could offer a helping hand. You did want to at one point: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/mojo/2016-10-09#i_13366119

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by joelberger on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:26PM (#12894100)

And by the way, no I'm really not interested in generally helping with a language I don't use. What I object to is the Perl6 community siphoning off Perl5 oxygen and then using it to do nothing. I WAS willing to help ... in the moment that it would have helped. Its too late now, I'm not sure how Perl6 gets the spotlight again when it so perfectly eschewed it when one was waiting to shine on it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by joelberger on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:24PM (#12894079)

You'll notice that that irc log is just me saying october what I'm saying now. The release was botched. Had I had any idea of the lackluster release that was to come I would have helped. This is a better log to read IMO: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2015-12-24#i_11771099

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