The original proposal for Perl 7 was good at grabbing attention, but not good at being something that could reasonably be accomplished by the current set of core developers - it would require either maintenance of two forks of the language (not feasible), or sunsetting of Perl 5 (risking it all on unlikely adoption and migration to the new fork, and likely losing several volunteer developers).
The current status is, roughly, planning for Perl 7 to be a compatible release with good features, and waiting until such a featureset is ready. See https://perl7faq.grinnz.com
The current status is, roughly, planning for Perl 7 to be a compatible release with good features, and waiting until such a featureset is ready. See https://perl7faq.grinnz.com