New Platforms
Serenity OS
Out of the box support for Serenity OS was added.
Rakudo, predating the rename by 10 years, will soon be 15 years old.
It seemed like a really interesting project, but they really screwed up with the marketing, firstly by calling it Perl 6 and secondly by never giving a date when it would be ready. I am using Python these days.
Not really
If php had paused development or even slowed it down like this it would also have been far less popular as probably even frameworks like Symfony and Laravel won't be possible with the older versions of php.
So thank you to the maintainers but I wish Perl evolved more quickly like PHP.
For a long time I worked with Java and it became very tiresome to have to learn a new framework for every new job. Java was my main tool between versions 1.02 and 1.6.
"At some point in the future, the PSC may decide that the set of features, taken together, represent a big enough step forward to justify a new baseline for Perl. If that happens, then the version will be bumped to 7.0."
https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-pe...