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There's actually talk about amending the name for next major language release ( https://rakudo.party/post/The-Hot-New-Language-Named-Rakudo ). Exactly for the reasons you state: it's a completely different language than Perl and so far it proved too confusing for everyone.

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For what it's worth, I disagree and was a bit annoyed that you've re-opened that particular Pandora's box again ;)

I don't mind annoying people to solve problems.

I think you're trying to solve the wrong problem: Don't move the languages further apart through rebranding, move the implementations closer together through improved interoperability.

Have a frontend that can invoke the perl5 interpreter as well as Rakudo as appropriate, supporting the perl5 command line flags, and arguably quite a bit of the problem goes away.

Maybe the problem isn't with the "Perl" part of the name, but with the "6" part? It sounds like an incremental update when it's actually a new language.

Perl X 10.0, like Apple did then?

You should mind annoying people to cause problems. Bringing up the language naming thing, again after 10+ years of discussion, has all of the problem solving ability of "hay guise whats going on in this thread?"

Branding is not the problem with Perl 6, though it is the easiest thing to bikeshed. The problem is compiler speed, language interoperability, and enough of a toolchain to start building serious apps. Make that good enough, and no one will care what our language is called.

Well, I present to you "D", the language impossible to find anything about on the Intarwebz.

You can try "dlang"

dunno perl6 seems fine to me, rakudo just looks like something half my team will wonder how to pronounce.. I agree with the other guy that people want a platform that they can use and is performant

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