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by wiremine 3913 days ago
Nice to see Perl 6 coming along! Even if it doesn't garner the developer base Perl 5 had back in the 90s, I think Perl 6 is important to push the art of programming along. Kudos to the Perl 6 team.

- Would be nice to make the intro copy more informative. Like: why would I want to use it as a developer? What does it look like compared to my favorite language?

- Really like the examples, especially since I haven't done much with Perl 6. However, like Perl 5, it still looks like parseable line noise to the untrained eye. Would be nice to have some better explanations to go along with the code. Maybe not right on the homepage, but at least linked into it.

- Would like to see the "For Newcomers" links on the "Documentation" page on the homepage.