I'd say that, until this summer, only core hackers claimed to use or even try Perl 6 to get anything business like done. chromatic's comment below is gracious

I'd say that, until this summer, only core hackers claimed to use or even try Perl 6 to get anything business like done. chromatic's comment below is gracious but I think he had a quite unpleasant experience, at least business-wise. And he was a core hacker. The most fun example I know of of someone, other than a core-hacker, planning to use Perl 6 in a production setting, is Sir Robert, as discussed on his 6ing.org blog and introduced at http://www.6ing.org/?p=6 http://www.6ing.org/?p=6 (I would describe myself as an avid Perl 6 watcher. I've been watching it for 12 years. For the last 18 months I've read pretty much the entire days' worth of dialog of the freenode #perl6 IRC channel, nowadays the main hub of Perl 6 activity. And in the last few weeks I've been selecting a subset of log lines representing the gist of each day's activity. For example: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/out.pl?channel=perl6;date=yesterday;summary=1 http://irclog.perlgeek.de/out.pl?channel=perl6;date=yesterda...)