&gt; <i>Obviously most Perl users understand the benefits of Perl 6.</i><p>I&#x27;ve been using Perl since 1994, built a company around Perl 5 code and the attractiveness of Perl 6 for me so far is: 0. I know the price paid (later) for ease of writing (maintainability or lack thereof and lots of traps for the unwary - using Perl::Critic has a devastating effect on perceived &quot;freedom&quot; and simplicity) and a language crammed full of fancy features (the Perl 5 interpreter code base is widely considered unmaintainable these days). I honestly can&#x27;t think of a single use case of Perl 6 with more than 10 lines or so where it&#x27;ll work better than e.g. Go.