I'm not sure how much Perl 6 chromatic writes on a daily basis (I'm mostly only familiar with his work on his book and the Perl 6 book and his magical ability t

I'm not sure how much Perl 6 chromatic writes on a daily basis (I'm mostly only familiar with his work on his book and the Perl 6 book and his magical ability to constantly find another 2-6% performance improvement for Parrot), but there are quite a few people writing Perl 6 already. Obviously there are people working on Rakudo and other Perl 6 implementations that spend their time writing Perl 6. But there's also people writing wikis, NES emulators, testing tools, build systems, and many other things in Perl 6. When people like chromatic say that you can write Perl 6 now, they aren't speaking based on hypotheticals or beliefs; they're speaking from experience. And, in my personal opinion, despite the NYI status of some things, bugs in the implementations of other things, and slow performance, writing code for Perl 6 is an amazing and wonderful experience. No, I wouldn't rewrite mission-critical systems on which people's lives depend in Perl 6 yet. Yes, I might write systems on which my life and future depend in Perl 6 right now. I definitely would and do write my side projects and one-off scripts in Perl 6 right now.