I&#x27;ve been looking at Perl6 over the last couple of weeks. The most recent O&#x27;Reilly books are about a decade old. A lot of the other material, and there is a surprising amount (e.g. the Advent Calendars) also was written during Perl6&#x27;s long gestation.<p>My conclusions:<p>1. There&#x27;s relatively little that doesn&#x27;t assume familiarity with Perl5, and most of what doesn&#x27;t tends to take the &quot;an array is...&quot; level as a jumping off point.<p>2. There&#x27;s no way to know if a Perl6 article from 2009 is going to be a world of hurt via deprecation over six years of development...and 2009 is on the more recent half of the gestation period.<p>The upshot is that I don&#x27;t have a good sense of alignment with the language community versus something like Clojure or Python, and it&#x27;s mostly due to a lack of clarity about the Perl6 community.