&gt; I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to characterize Rakudo Perl 6 as incomplete, at least on the MoarVM backend.<p>Look, I think Rakudo Perl 6 is great, and its quite usable for many things. OTOH, I think it is quite fair to refer to it as &quot;incomplete&quot;, because:<p>&gt; It is very nearly complete<p>&quot;very nearly complete&quot; is a kind of &quot;incomplete&quot;.<p>You can&#x27;t really make a fair comparison to Perl 6 uptake <i>before</i> even the Perl project is calling Perl 6 &quot;ready&quot; with Python 3 uptake 7 years after PSF said Python 3 was ready.