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