Maybe you should do a little research? Rakudo is backed by the Perl foundation. It&#x27;s not going away and neither is the MoarVM.<p>Rakudo + MoarVM is going to be &quot;it&quot; going forward I would think. I guess we&#x27;ll wait and see. That doesn&#x27;t mean that other compilers won&#x27;t come along because that is one of the benefits of Perl 6. All the languages you mention have different versions out there. The only one that doesn&#x27;t is Perl 5 and that&#x27;s because only Perl can parse Perl. That&#x27;s going away with Perl 6 and that&#x27;s good. Rakudo+MoarVM is great. It still leaves the door open for genius to shine.<p>Rakudo + MoarVM is exactly what potential Perl 6 developers want. Everything else is just gravy.<p>I have no idea if Perl 6 will &quot;take off&quot;. I hope it gains traction. Watching Larry Wall got me interested enough to install it and start learning it anyway.