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by raiph 2746 days ago
Cons:

* Rakudo -- the only P6 compiler for now (and likely many years, maybe forever) -- has a slow startup, around 0.1 seconds or so.

* Rakudo is still a work in progress. What's done is pretty solid but, for example, no one has implemented the `-a` awk/autosplit command line option (cf https://gist.github.com/raiph/1d0cbefcb3cfe45b0b906282e6e405...) and command line usage is currently `use strict;` by default so you have to declare variables with `my`.

* Pros

P6 makes for sweet oneliners...

25 one liners being written up this month: https://perl6.online/category/advent-calendar/

9 categories last updated a year ago: https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Perl6-One-Liners

https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+oneliners https://www.google.com/search?q=perl6+one+liners