Learned today that Perl 6 won't be compatible with 5. Luckily I have no skin in the game, but it's amazing that language designers made this mistake after the hard lesson of Python 2 to 3 — a division that will have taken 12 years to resolve (if the 2020 sunset works this time).
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I get what you're saying, and the Perl 6 improvements do look good, but even so, you really do need to favor backwards compatibility in a language above almost all else. The rift will likely be ~irreconcilable. Perl had the benefit of hindsight where Python didn't.
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I don't understand what you mean with benefit of hindsight - perl6 started *way* before python3?
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