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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Ultimatt on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:59PM (#21236671)
Raku isnt falling from public favor, it hasn't made it yet. It's an entirely different language to Perl 5. Like the difference between C and C# or Java.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by zumu on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:30PM (#21237082)
Yea, sorry I'm not super familiar with the project, but that is the general vibe I get about Perl.

Interestingly enough 落(raku) also has the connotation of failure or missing the target, so not very auspicious in the context of a new language either!

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by gpvos on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:05AM (#21246086)
> that is the general vibe I get about Perl.

Perl <=5 did make it, it was quite big in the 90s and early 2000s.

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