Perl 6 was announced in the year 2000. 18 years is a long time. It should be a case study for software developers.
I don’t know if they should give up. Haven’t looked at Perl 6 in about 5 years. The best thing the community could do would be to turn the language into the solution to a particular problem:
Web development, machine learning, etc
Sure, anyone could build everything from scratch, but that’s usually not a good idea.
I went to OScon in something like 2009 or 10 and someone working on the python interpreter they were gonna share with Perl got on stage and showed how the roadmap and their velocity wouldn’t have Perl 6 done until 2016.
This kind of crazy has been identified in the ecosystem for a while.
I don’t know if they should give up. Haven’t looked at Perl 6 in about 5 years. The best thing the community could do would be to turn the language into the solution to a particular problem:
Web development, machine learning, etc
Sure, anyone could build everything from scratch, but that’s usually not a good idea.