Not to be trollish, but is anyone actually using Perl 6 for more than just for kicks? It is a super interesting language, but has it been battle tested over the years similar to Perl 5?
Another internal use is an AWS infrastructure management tool that we built. A cli util that handles the initial bootstrapping for new AWS projects and a few helper features to simplify some of our common management tasks.
Perl 6 has been pretty easy to work with. Even in situations where a module isn't available or the requirements are too complex to build it with Perl 6 within our project time constraints, its facilities as a glue language really make it simple to work with external tools, modules, libs.
If you like the Perl 6 syntax then I'd recommend just spending some time with it. It's stable and fast enough for regular use now.
Most other subsystems of Rakudo Perl 6 have been improved significantly, some by orders of magnitude. And then there's work on the basic runtime of MoarVM and its JIT that will benefit all programs running on MoarVM.
The Perl Foundation recently approved another grant for the JIT: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/11/september-2018-grant-... about http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/10/grant-proposal-moarvm...