How are we to trust that Rakudo won't go the way of Pugs, or that MoarVM won't go the way of Parrot, leaving us in a lurch?
Some people will tell you to trust them. I, on the other hand, base my expectations on the history of the project and the actions of the people involved. I don't believe you can turn 15 years of disappointment and underperforming into something usable based on an arbitrary deadline enforced by yet another marketing announcement.
There obviously is some marketing involved, but in principle, this is less about Rakudo, and more about Larry freezing the 6.0 language version.
One can hope that development focus will then switch from semantics to things like stability, deployment and performance, ie the things you strongly advocated for years ago.
I guess we'll see if it's going to happen that way...
While it may be technically true that "Perl 6.0 released!" is an accurate headline if you define "Perl 6.0" as "the test suite for the 6.0 language version", I suspect that almost everyone reading that headline will expect to see a stable language implementation.
Given the reception to the past year's worth of discussion around "Get ready to party", it seems irresponsible to me to continue with these semantic distinctions, as they're lost on the intended audience.
Some people will tell you to trust them. I, on the other hand, base my expectations on the history of the project and the actions of the people involved. I don't believe you can turn 15 years of disappointment and underperforming into something usable based on an arbitrary deadline enforced by yet another marketing announcement.