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I haven't followed Perl development in a while, but I remember there was a briefly hyped "Perl 7" announcement. Did that plan get dropped?

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Sort of. It caused a kerfuffle, and so it was decided to continue with 5.x until there's a big enough change to make the jump (and who knows if any such change will ever come). Quote:

"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...

I used to keep track of what version of Linux we'd be on if we'd stopped arbitrarily revving major versions. Just making this up now, but like 2.102 or some such.

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