Here&#x27;s my take on it:<p>Hackers or not, we&#x27;re all still human, and experience emotions like frustration and disappointment.  Back when perl6 was first being discussed (what was it, 15 years ago now?), probably a lot of us were getting a ton of mileage out of the remarkable perl5 ecosystem.<p>When perl6 started getting promoted, it seemed like it took a lot of the wind out of the perl5 sails, like an Osborne effect for a programming language.<p>When the years ticked by and nothing came of it, and lots of moved onto other languages, I imagine a lot of people still remembered being disappointed at how the perl5-&gt;6 situation played out.<p>Probably some of the negativity is just remnants of that, because, like I said, we&#x27;re all still human.<p>And schadenfreude, I&#x27;m sure, plays into it, like when the overhyped disappointments Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever were released...<p>Anyway, just one man&#x27;s opinion, of course...