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vgy7ujm
What if there also was an effort to make Perl 6 faster than Perl 5 (and PHP 7 etc.), and to make it super easy to deploy (think golang binaries), best of breed tooling etc.

Possible result: Perl reputation rescued, community unites, once again rule the world.

jmnicolas
Honest question, I am wondering why would someone learn Perl today ?
vgy7ujm
Perl 6: Like any other new fun language (elixir etc etc..), lots of innovation happening.

Perl 5: Still rules if you want a unixy language.