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by russellallen 3913 days ago
Don't worry, within 24 hours there will be hundreds of comments all explaining how Perl 6 is of no interest to anyone.
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It does need to find an audience. People using Perl 5.x are probably working in conservative companies that stuck with what worked. Perl 6 will need 2-3 years to bake. Python 3.x is just gaining some tractions 7 years after its release.

Perl 6 needs to find a problem that it can solve well. Perhaps a great web framework?

The companies I know using Perl are generally not so conservative - many of them also have Go code bases, heavy focus on DevOps, and so on. They tend to keep using Perl because they have developers who love programming in Perl...