[patrickas]

That is exactly what the main architect of the compiler has been working on for the past couple of years.

Performance has been enhanced by a few factors since it was released in 2015.

For a lots of things the next stable release (as soon as the latest round of optimization have been merged) will be on par with perl5 / ruby / python ...

The main slow thing remaining is Grammars which if I understand correctly are not available in those other languages to compare speed, but that is next on the road map for optimization.

Here is a recent talk about the state of perl6 performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeu0wK92NE

[zzzcpan]

Well, no, these are all slow interpreted languages. There is no reason to invest any time into another one just as slow in 2019.

[Ultimatt]

Wat? Consider Perl was created in 1987 when compute resources were things like the Apple II with a Motorola 68020 at 16 MHz with 4MB of RAM. Exactly what do you imagine was the reaction back then? Something being "interpreted" (which Perl 6 is not any more than C# or Java or JavaScript) simply doesn't matter given modern computers, and things like JIT at runtime are hugely valuable even in languages like C. Some interpretation is better than upfront compilation.