There are already a couple of working compilers for ‘Perl 6’...

There are several incomplete implementations in development.

‘Perl 6’ is being written for free

Ian Hague donated $200,000 to the Perl Foundation three and a half years ago. $100k went to funding Perl 6 development and $100k was nominally seed funding to attract other donations. Besides that, Vienna.pm has funded some Perl 6 development.

... by dozens if not hundreds of volunteers.

You can probably count core contributors on both hands with fingers left over. Both Rakudo and Niezca have a bus number of about two.

No one is suggesting you wait for ‘Perl 6’...

I think a reasonable person might object to the categorization of any Perl 6 implementation being "usable" right now for anything more than a toy project. Almost 16 months after the first Rakudo Star release, I don't find Rakudo usable, and I have commit access to the full stack of the project, so if there's an early adopter archetype, I likely fit.

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In reply to Re^7: Moose - my new religion by chromatic
in thread Moose - my new religion by jdrago999

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