Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington

You can go to link , download it, and play with it now :) I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too: link ▶ this video

As someone who is relatively new to perl, I think perl 6 is definitely a positive direction. It removes lots of inconsistencies, while providing a clean base for future expansion. For something like the sigils, what's more important - to know that a variable is a scalar, or that it's some kind of hash/array? The second would definitely be less confusing when learning the language. There are also definitely some good things coming out of perl 6, like this ▶ this video

The typing and grammar mechanism aren't common, it may influence other languages. Also, Perl managed to survive even without mainstream relevance so the community will probably keep enjoying it. ps: I found this talk pretty convincing about pragmatism link also: ▶ this video