Personally, the features I'm most interested in are ones you didn't actually list. They are - grammars - grapheme-based Unicode - implicit parallelism This

Personally, the features I'm most interested in are ones you didn't actually list. They are - grammars - grapheme-based Unicode - implicit parallelism This is why Perl6 is still relevant today. Larry is hopeful that Rakudo can deliver sometime next year (not all of these features are quite there yet), but even if it doesn't, the language will remain of interest as long as there is no serious contender in sight.