&gt; <i>Is Perl 6 something that non-Perl developers should be looking into?</i><p>Perl5 was feeling the weight of its humble origins as a small language for scripts, designed in the 80&#x27;s. All that $@%&lt;&gt;$_ syntax, and bad support for keeping larger programs clean and organized.<p>Python&#x27;s main selling point was: like Perl, but cleaner syntax and object system is in-build, not bolted on as an afterthought.<p>Also Ruby&#x27;s selling point was: Perl, flexible for meta-language hacking like Perl, but cleaner syntax and in-build object system, also not as restrictive as Python.<p>Now Perl6 has everything that at a time made Python or Ruby feel more modern than Perl5, and more, even optional typing. (Well, it doesn&#x27;t have Python&#x27;s opinionated restrictiveness.) Of course at the moment, Perl6 doesn&#x27;t have the huge selection of libraries that Python and Ruby have at the moment.<p>I don&#x27;t know what, if anything, is a good reason for you to learn a new language. But while in the trio perl5,python,ruby perl5 was the most dated, old-feeling language, now in the trio perl6,python,ruby Perl6 is now the most modern in its design.