Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
This has been a huge deal for the Perl community.<p>First, it was thought that Perl 6 would be the replacement for Perl 5.<p>But it was long ago recognized that there was no clear upgrade path from Perl 5 to Perl 6, so it was agreed that Perl 6 was a &quot;sister&quot; language to Perl 5 rather than the successor.<p>Except that many people expected that Perl 6 would be the replacement, so that stalled many projects. So an &quot;alias&quot; for Perl 6 was created, but that didn&#x27;t seem to help.<p>Larry has now agreed with the change and Perl 6 will be renamed to &quot;raku&quot; and Perl 5, which has regular, major releases every year, will now be able to simply be &quot;Perl&quot; and be free to continue on its own way.<p>If I had my choice, I&#x27;d program in raku because it&#x27;s a lovely language addressing many pain points (including being one of the few dynamic languages with a working concurrency model). But it&#x27;s not adopted widely enough yet for that to happen. Time will tell ...