[flogic]

Frankly, I'm of the opinion that it's a good thing Perl6 hasn't come out yet. 10 years ago, I would have welcomed it. Now though, it's 2015. We have a plethora of very nice languages. Many of them are statically typed but still fairly expressive. In general, dynamic languages are still more expressive, but the gap is much narrower. It becomes a question of if the size of that gap is wide enough to justify using Perl, Python, Ruby, or etc over something safer. Personally, I'm feeling "no".

[kbenson]

Are you not aware that Perl 6 supports optional typing? One of the design goals is to be able to exist at both ends of that gap, and fill both needs.