Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
I think that logo is really childish and weird looking.  It puts me off.  And Larry Wall talking about perl gets old really fast.<p>In my opinion perl will slowly die because it has no social capital.  A good sign of this is when you are around other programmers working on a real problem if you say &quot;Hey let&#x27;s solve this problem in perl!&quot; it will almost always be the case that everyone can do it that way and knows exactly what perl to script (if they are of a certain age) but almost no one would even bother.  Who cares about the why.  It&#x27;s just the fact.  You get no extra points for knowing perl and for the most part if you are the guy on the team that is assigned to work on some old perl script it&#x27;s probably a bad sign for you career-wise.  Other languages, on the other hand, do have social capital.<p>Ultimately for me it&#x27;s a lot like asking why everyone still uses the QWERTY keyboard when there are other keyboard layouts out there that are so much better.  Perl might be better at some things, but like alternatives to the QWERTY keyboard, it&#x27;s just weird to use it and the payoff isn&#x27;t big enough to justify the change.