In 2008, I was in charge of standing up a new service at the company that I worked. They were a heavy Perl shop. I considered using Perl 6 for it since it was "

In 2008, I was in charge of standing up a new service at the company that I worked. They were a heavy Perl shop. I considered using Perl 6 for it since it was "just around the corner." After some investigation, we realized that (a) it was not just around the corner and (2) Perl developers were hard to come by. We went with Java/Spring instead.