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I always liked the idea of renaming Perl 6 to Rakudo, being the major/official implementation. It's also what most other programming languages do. A major, leading implementation, as well as others following. This would also make it easier for newcomers.

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Rakudo is by no means more official than any other implementation (for example currently niecza is quite strong, see https://github.com/sorear/niecza/ for the code).

Renaming Perl 6 to Rakudo makes about as much sense as renaming C to GCC to MSVC.

Rakudo, while a nice name, is also too easy to mistype - even core committers (me included) have frequently misspelled its name in commit messages etc.

> Rakudo, while a nice name, is also too easy to mistype - even core committers (me included) have frequently misspelled its name in commit messages etc.

I agree with the principle of this, but you do have to compare this to Pearl.

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