I expect that the reaction from most of the HN community will be somewhat similar to &quot;why use perl these days when there are so many other more modern choices,&quot; but reading the spec there are a lot of nice things in perl6, including the static type system, macro support, and improved patter matching. The syntax still feels a little antiquated, but there is an awful lot to like in this new release, and i expect that so very expressive, not overly opaque code will be written using this.