I am late to the party here, but I've recently rolled perl6 into my analytics stack project: nlytiq ( https://github.com/joelandman/nyltiq-base https://github.c

I am late to the party here, but I've recently rolled perl6 into my analytics stack project: nlytiq ( https://github.com/joelandman/nyltiq-base https://github.com/joelandman/nyltiq-base ). Very early stages, I am trying to build an up-to-date tool chain of very powerful tools for data munging, analytics, etc. for my own projects. Born of a frustration with the badly out of date tools in most distros. I pulled Perl6 in after seeing some of what it was capable of last year. Generally I like tools that make hard things easier, and easy things trivial. I don't like tools that require huge amounts of boilerplate code to even start using them productively. Perl6 is definitely in the category of making hard things easier. It is not Perl5, and doesn't pretend to be. Perl5 is immensely powerful on its own, definitely one of my go-to tools. Perl6 brings in many of the things that I've been using in other languages for a while, with some aspect of "perl-ness" about it, which, to me, makes it more comfortable. Its ability to connect with/call anything positively blows me away. Perl5 has Platypus::FFI which can do some of this, but Perl6 is a compiled language (to an underlying VM). This has been one of my major concerns with P5 for a while (and still a concern in Python and others ... yeah, I know of PyPy, but I want a compiler built into Python 3.x).