&gt; 1. Performance. Back in the 1990s, Perl hit a sweet spot 
&gt; of being quick for development while still being fast 
&gt; enough for a wide variety of tasks. It still performs 
&gt; reasonably well versus other scripting language. Every
&gt; time I looked at Perl 6 it failed to be fast enough for 
&gt; anything interesting to me.<p>Yeah, performance <i>sucks</i> for Perl 6. Simple reason - first make it work, then make it fast. It&#x27;s just been announced like yesterday that there&#x27;s gonna be beta releases before the first stable release.<p>My money is performance will get better between now and Perl 6, v1.