[SrslyJosh]

> On a related note, should I, as someone who does not know Perl, bother learning Perl 6 yet? Or is it likely to change a lot before release?

I don't think so. Everything I've read in recent years has indicated that the grammar is stable, which implies that the operators and planned feature set are also stable.

If you want to melt your brain, you can take a look at STD.pm6, the official grammar for Perl 6, which is also written in Perl 6:

https://github.com/perl6/std/blob/master/STD.pm6

Recent changes seem to be very minor.

[ab5tract]

Just to clarify, as you responded "I don't think so" to two questions, the language is not going to change too significantly prior to release, so yes you should bother learning Perl 6. No one I've met who has actually bother to use the language has had anything but excitement about it.