Great. So why should I go to Perl 6? What's the compelling use case? Ruby had a compelling use case - Rails. Rails completely reinvented how web applications could be written, and it did so in large part because it relied on the nature of the language (specifically its reliance on duck typing). That's why attempts to mimic Rails in other languages always feel a little clunky.

JavaScript, for all its blecherous losing horror, had a compelling use case - it ran in browsers. Later, Node became a compelling use case, for dealing with both performance issues and package management problems that plagued other systems (including Rails).

Python had multiple compelling use cases. It became very popular in math programming and teaching, for its clarity and consistency.

Perl's compelling use case was with Perl 4, as a general purpose glue scripting language in a Unix world. It solved tremendous problems. Perl 5 didn't have a compelling case, and it grossly exaggerated the already bad problems with complexity and inconsistency. Am I talking about Perl 5? Yes, because for 22 YEARS, we've been saddled with that crap. Two decades of waiting for Perl 6, for Perl to unfuck itself and become something useful for more than one person at a time. That's like, my entire career. Longer than most programmers in this industry have been in the industry. Longer than some of them have been alive. 22 years.

So why, why, why should I switch? What's the promise now? What problem am I having with Ruby that it can solve?