Follow up by the author:<p><a href="https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/2018-04-its-time-for-optimism/" rel="nofollow">https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/2018-04-its-time-f...</a>
And the discussion on reddit:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/7r1b33/an_open_letter_to_the_perl_community/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/7r1b33/an_open_letter...</a>