I&#x27;m fairly disappointed with this release. My read through of a tutorial in it went something like this:<p>* Oh you&#x27;re sticking with that confusing % for hashes, @ for arrays then $ for everything else... maybe maybe classes have been sorted out though.<p>* Hmm, why is the syntax for defining a class totally different to defining functions and variables everywhere else<p>* Well they can&#x27;t have made anything WORSE. Oh fields can have minuses in them?? Packages exist and you can define them but you&#x27;re not supposed to anymore?<p>* Well at least you can&#x27;t totally rewrite the language in some arcane way which means every bit of perl you come across is totally different and unreadable for 45min while you work out what the custom DSL does. looks at phasers, Meta operators, fix&#x27;es <i>sigh</i><p>Great that this has finally been released, but it really doesn&#x27;t solve the problems that Perl always had that it is TOO expressive and too customisable, meaning it&#x27;ll always be vastly different project to project. On top of that it doesn&#x27;t have the things that people are really excited about now, which is channels, selects and other things that make async easy. I think that this would have been an amazing release when Ruby was getting popular, but I think it&#x27;s a few years too late.