&gt;&gt;I don&#x27;t get why anyone has any hopes for Perl6.<p>Why should anybody have hopes for anything, they don&#x27;t like.<p>&gt;&gt;It took 16(!) years to implement features other languages already have.<p>Like what? Have you even looked at the Perl 6 feature list?<p>&gt;&gt;And CPAN is the dark, sad pit of forgotten and abandoned packages.<p>Clearly you have no active involvement with the Perl community.