> You seem to believe in the existence of a bunch of people who have somehow wrapped their identity around hating Perl 6. You only have to go to PerlMonks to f

> You seem to believe in the existence of a bunch of people who have somehow wrapped their identity around hating Perl 6. You only have to go to PerlMonks to find them. It's not that hard. > the Perl 6 community burned through their goodwill literally years ago That may be so, but most Perl 6 people from that era, either have left or have reverted to lurking mode. The current Perl 6 community mostly consist of people who have become active during the last implementation attempt, based on 6model and MoarVM. And who are focused on results. > You're going to need hard evidence Working on it :-). https://twitter.com/zoffix/status/1045623538345017344 https://twitter.com/zoffix/status/1045623538345017344 shows an object creation benchmark compared to Perl 5 (Perl 6 having become faster than Perl 5), and a "real world" benchmark that's been running for 4+ years: https://tux.nl/Talks/CSV6/speed.log https://tux.nl/Talks/CSV6/speed.log Yes, it's still not as fast as one would like it to be. Still, as said before, Rakudo on MoarVM is designed to be able to support runtime optimizations. If you like to find out more about how these optimizations are done, check out Jonathan Worthington's blog: https://6guts.wordpress.com https://6guts.wordpress.com