I loved Perl in the 90s. A lot of my programming back then was done in Perl (Perl 4/5 of course), and it was good (well, as good as it could be back then :). Bu

I loved Perl in the 90s. A lot of my programming back then was done in Perl (Perl 4/5 of course), and it was good (well, as good as it could be back then :). But now, 20 years later, I am not sure I can name any reason I would start a new project in Perl, or try to scale a decidedly-not-flat learning curve of Perl 6. And looks like the article discussed pretty much recognizes that, though trying to cleverly dismiss it with koans like "Perl 6’s lack of a niche is the language’s niche". But somehow this does not seem to be very enlightening. There's always the classical "because it's there" reason, but is there any others to get into Perl 6 as it is now?