[spidaman]

Back in the day, I was an avid mod_perl user and Perl 5 enthusiast.

I recall being optimistic that Perl 6 would come out of the oven in 12 to 18 months. Sadly, that was in 2004. My feelings about Perl 6 are like those about a Microsoft OS that is stable, secure and performant: a nice idea that has grown into a myth. Sorry to dump on Perl, I still have many friends who use Perl 5 on daily basis. I think for a lot of folks, the real "Perl 6" is... Ruby.

[chromatic]

I think for a lot of folks, the real "Perl 6" is... Ruby.

That doesn't make sense; why would a "real Perl 6" be measurably worse than Perl 5?

[spidaman]

A "ruby vs. perl" fight is the furthest from my mind, I'm just speaking anecdotally about what my friends who, like me, were heavy perl users are using in it's place now. If the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark, yes, absolutely, it doesn't make sense.

[chromatic]

If the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark...

That and language stability, ecosystem, internal coherence, library availability, release process, compatibility, deployment concerns, tooling....