Where did you originally find out about Perl 6?

Have you used Perl 5 extensively before finding out Perl 6?

How long have you been using Perl 6?

What age group do you fall into?

Do you find the name "Perl 6" to be confusing?

Have you ever had a difficulty explaining the difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6 when talking to others?

How regularly do you use Perl 6?

Have you written any modules for the Perl 6 ecosystem?

How many private projects have you written in Perl 6? (unpublished projects)

What platforms are you using for development?

Do you consider Perl 6 as your main programming language?

Not including Perl 6, what language are you most proficient in?

If you've utilized the module management tool `zef`, do you like it?

Do you use Perl 6 at work?

How did you install Perl 6?

What version of Rakudo do you have?

Do you prefer to have the documentation in a different language instead of English?

What do you utilize Perl 6 for?

Can you type/use non-ascii characters (e.g. unicode operators supported by Perl 6)

Have you used Perl 6 in academia?

How would you rate the Perl 6 documentation?

How would you rate the friendliness of the Perl 6 community?

What is your most wanted feature for upcoming Perl 6/Rakudo releases?

What is your favorite feature of Perl 6?

Are there any modules that you need in Perl 6 that aren't readily available? If so, what?

Have you ever experienced issues with using your Perl 6 programs with newer Rakudo versions?

Data Science, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Text processing, General Scripting

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

I study but had no chance of using it

Its gradual typing discipline

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Yes, I use features of my text editor

I study but had no chance of using it

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Glue, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I remember alt codes for common characters that I use, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Web Development, Prototyping, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, Working with hardware (IoT, RPi, etc.)

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Yes, I use Perl6::Tidy

I've had no chance of using Perl 6 in academia

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web scraping, Text processing, General Scripting

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Yes, I remember alt codes for common characters that I use, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

I've had no chance of using Perl 6 in academia

More speed and memory optimizations

The flexible language (grammar)

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

mostly online programming games

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

I've had no chance of using Perl 6 in academia

better regex/grammar performance

almost all of my perl 6 programs were one-offs for stuff like advent of code and utilized whatever version happened to be available in glot.io or whatever other online environment was available; I've never had to maintain a program

cloned from source for development, docker for production

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use features of my text editor, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

I've had no chance of using Perl 6 in academia

Yes, newer Rakudo release had a regression (a bug or an unintended change)

Yes, and we sell software written in Perl 6

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, One-time scripts

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Profiling that works on larger programs

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, CLI/TUI applications

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Sort of, I just copy-paste them, No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Better NativeCall for C/C++

Better DBI and surrounding ecosystem

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Web scraping, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use features of my text editor, Yes, I use an input-method framework that supports many unicode characters (e.g. ibus)

No, and I'm not in academia

Prototyping, Glue, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, newer Rakudo release had a regression (a bug or an unintended change)

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, it turned me off from the language

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, but I have studied recently

Yes, newer Rakudo release had a regression (a bug or an unintended change)

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout, Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Performance / implicit multithreading

Yes, newer Rakudo release had a regression (a bug or an unintended change)

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Monthly Rakudo Debian package

Web Development, Prototyping, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Faster custom operators. Slang documentation

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

equally Perl5, Python, PHP, C, Java. JavaScript

Web Development, Prototyping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, One-time scripts

Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS)

Performance of native compact types and arrays, more implicit parallelism

A good suite of scientific modules and a DataFrame style library

Only during the times of the GLR

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Web Development, Web scraping, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts, Project Euler

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose

No, and I'm not in academia

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Web Development, Data Science, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, my software stopped working properly and I had to tweak it to match changes in Rakudo

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Most recent from GitHub (HEAD)

Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts, Working with hardware (IoT, RPi, etc.)

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout, Yes, I use features of my text editor

Yes, I chose to use it by myself, Yes, I use it for research

Unicode support and unicode ops

I just want more mature modules, otherwise there's everything I need

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I remember alt codes for common characters that I use

No, and I'm not in academia

A Type system which encompasses any F# behaviours in a way which can be optimised

That time is taken to understand the problem as fully as possible

I'm not aware of anything rivalling Go's context use everywhere

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

Glue, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Web Development, Web scraping

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout

Yes, I chose to use it by myself

rakudo-pkg for Ubuntu, distro for Alpine, chocolatey or docker for Windows

Web Development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use features of my text editor, I use the standard 'US International AltGr Dead Keys' layout

No, and I'm not in academia

Usability. It felt very easy to pick up Perl 6 and begin using a wide variety of its features with ease.

Had to use '--force-build' to install YAML::Parser::LibYAML on recent rakudo versions

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, my software stopped working properly and I had to tweak it to match changes in Rakudo

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

I have never spoken to others about Perl 6

General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Performance improvement

Multi-paradigm expressiveness

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Yes, and we sell software written in Perl 6

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

Web Development, Scientific simulation

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose

No, and I'm not in academia

Async, concurrency, compactness, OO

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Most recent from GitHub (HEAD)

Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

faster regex/grammar/parsing

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Web Development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS)

No, and I'm not in academia

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Web Development, Data Science, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

modules for data science such as pandas, numpy, scipy, skilit learn etc.

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use features of my text editor

Yes, I chose to use it by myself, Yes, I use it for research

Making tools for software development, Text processing

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use `digraphs` utility

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Most recent from GitHub (HEAD)

Prototyping, Glue, Making tools for software development

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Improved JIT and real-world performance

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

Windows, Linux, *BSD, AIX

Web Development, Prototyping, Compilers/Parsers, One-time scripts, 0Fun

Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Faster compile and runtime for quick scripts

Grammars & Asynchronous processing

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web Development, Prototyping, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, newer Rakudo release had a regression (a bug or an unintended change)

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web Development, Text processing, General Scripting

Sort of, I just copy-paste them, No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

Yes, I chose to use it by myself

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Web Development, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Text processing, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Yes, I use `digraphs` utility

No, but I have studied recently, No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Glue, Making tools for software development, General Scripting

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Everything is an object; Support for command-line arguments in MAIN()

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

I have never spoken to others about Perl 6

Compilers/Parsers, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Better documentation. More cut-and-paste example led (cookbooks), complemented by foundational bottoms-up theory (like an O’Reilly book), focused on syntax and the novel features of P6 (hypers, metas, grammars, slangs,, etc). Speed, both startup and runtime.

Flexible syntax (user defined ops are first class citizens, eg), better regexes and grammars, loop-free programming (ie brevity).

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi (though it's still Linux, I guess; Raspbian)

The update bash alias: https://github.com/zoffixznet/r

Web Development, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts, Working with hardware (IoT, RPi, etc.), One-up other languages' showing off by showing the same feature in Perl 6 and having it a lot shorter

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout, Yes, I use software for keyboard macros (e.g. AutoHotkey), Yes, I remember alt codes for common characters that I use

No, and I'm not in academia

Dispatch caching of slurpy candidates

Mojolicious and Mojo::SQLite. In particular, the same level of polished interface and available features.

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, it turned me off from the language

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Most recent from GitHub (HEAD)

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Web Development, Text processing, General Scripting

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Stability and performance.

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Making tools for software development, General Scripting

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Concurrency and asynchronous primitives

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Web Development, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Making tools for software development, General Scripting, Background services

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use features of my text editor

Yes, I chose to use it by myself

WWW::Mechanize, Socket::Unix

The community warns on my modules potentially breaking, and sometimes supply patches way before it becomes an issue

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Data Science, Prototyping, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Sort of, I just copy-paste them, No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

Yes, I chose to use it by myself

I have never spoken to others about Perl 6

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web Development, Prototyping, One-time scripts, possible blockchain project

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

well developed actor support

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Prototyping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, Working with hardware (IoT, RPi, etc.)

Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout, Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS)

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Yes, and we sell software written in Perl 6

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Expressivity. Coding Perl 6 feels like coding Perl 5 with pleasant surprises

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Windows, Linux, Mac, *BSD

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Prototyping, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, but I have studied recently

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Yes, I use Perl6::Tidy

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, my software stopped working properly and I had to tweak it to match changes in Rakudo

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Glue, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Regex & grammars, Supplies

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

In process of learning Perl 5, and after couple of p5 books I switched to p6 :)

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

Web Development, Glue, Web scraping, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

It's all okay. Thanks Rakudo team for their great work!

Not sure yet. I'm at baby-perl stage at this moment. OOP maybe.

Perlmonks: Around first release of Rakudo * in 2010

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Glue, Web scraping, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Better/more complete GUI toolkit bindings

For certain, but I released my first module 8 years ago. Pugs, Niecza, Parrot, Nom, GLR, Chrismas; the language was still evolving.

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Emacs + evil mode, not spacemacs

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Data Science, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout, Yes, I use features of my text editor

Yes, I chose to use it by myself, Yes, I use it for research

Yes, and we sell software written in Perl 6

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web Development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use `digraphs` utility

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Web Development, Web scraping

Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS)

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Web Development, Prototyping, Text processing, General Scripting, Working with hardware (IoT, RPi, etc.)

Yes, as suggested by course material

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

Web scraping, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

Javascript or Webassembly output so I can run it in a browser.

Tools for distributing projects built in Perl6 as a "binary" file.

Only before Christmas and version 6c, which was to be expected.

I have never spoken to others about Perl 6

*BSD, FreeBSD in VM on Windows (until I install FreeBSD on a disk)

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

One-time scripts, just fiddling around; haven't committed anything to a permanet file

Sort of, I just copy-paste them, No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Better error messages than Perl 5, Python 2. Ability to ask what kind of a variable is (WHAT, HOW, perl methods)

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Web Development, Glue, Text processing

Yes, I remember alt codes for common characters that I use

No, and I'm not in academia

Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS)

No, and I'm not in academia

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web Development, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, General Scripting, One-time scripts, Working with hardware (IoT, RPi, etc.)

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

concurrency, parallelism, and asychrony

Prototyping, Glue, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS), Yes, I use `digraphs` utility, Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

More speed optimizations

It being multi-paradigm; very flexible and expressive; allows one to write concise and short code.

No, but I still find bugs and traps every now and then as I try to learn and use the language

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Prototyping, Web scraping, General Scripting

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Prototyping, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

LISP CLOS-like after before and around methods for objects

Easy concurrency. Best object system in years. Grammars.

Please produce beginner friendly docs for concurrency.

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Yes, but my native language isn't on this list

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, but I have studied recently

numpy library similar to python

pandas, matplotlib alternative

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Prototyping, Mathematics

Yes, I use features of my text editor, Yes, I use `digraphs` utility

No, but I have studied recently

better online reference documentation, especially a more searchable structure – I never seem able to find anything on the website and have to dig up the old synopsis documents for clarity!

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Glue, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting

Yes, I use a custom keyboard layout

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Yes, it turned me off from the language

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Web Development, General Scripting

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Beautiful and clear regexes

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Most recent from GitHub (HEAD)

Web Development, Data Science, Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts, Working with hardware (IoT, RPi, etc.)

Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS), Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Third-party packages (e.g. debs by nxadm/rakudo-pkg)

Prototyping, Glue, Web scraping, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

Prototyping, Making tools for software development, Compilers/Parsers, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Most recent from GitHub (HEAD)

Data Science, One-time scripts

Yes, I use `digraphs` utility

No, and I'm not in academia

Flexibility / multiple paradigms

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Prototyping, Glue, Making tools for software development, Text processing, understanding unfamiliar programming language concepts or features in practice

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose

No, and I'm not in academia

up-to date packages *in the distros*, and a social commitment to keep it so

plentyful and convenient bits of syntax rarely found in other languages, e.g. choice of string delimiters and indented heredocs

type-safe DB ORM, equivalent to jooq

Yes, newer Rakudo release had a regression (a bug or an unintended change)

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

I have never spoken to others about Perl 6

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

Yes, but my native language isn't on this list

Personal project to try out language ( conjugating verbs )

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Web Development, General Scripting, One-time scripts

No, but I hope to configure my system soon so that I can do it

No, and I'm not in academia

Modern OO syntax and concurrency

Selenium/PhantomJS bindings to test angularJS web pages

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Whatever text editor I find ( mostly Joe and Gedit)

Distribution Packages (e.g. `apt install perl6`)

Glue, Making tools for software development, Text processing, General Scripting

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose

No, and I'm not in academia

All ! ( oop, REAL arrays and Hash, react blocks, named args, etc ... )

Not so much, perhaps a full oop templating system with smart caching ...

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Monthly Rakudo Release (tarball)

Prototyping, Text processing, General Scripting

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

support for logic programming

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

Prototyping, Text processing, General Scripting, Home finance management

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose

No, and I'm not in academia

Jvm support would allow me to use it at work

Data Science, Text processing, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Yes, my software stopped working properly and I had to tweak it to match changes in Rakudo

I've used it previously, but I'm not using it anymore

I have never spoken to others about Perl 6

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Learning about Perl 6…when I still used it.

Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS)

No, and I'm not in academia

Enough tuits to finish a module to deliver epoch-based time that’s closed under addition & used the Olson tz db

Even though I don’t understand them: grammars

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Sort of, I just copy-paste them

No, and I'm not in academia

Prototyping, Text processing, General Scripting, One-time scripts

Yes, I use features of my text editor

No, and I'm not in academia

Maybe, it wasn't a big problem

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Data Science, Text processing

Yes, I use helper tools provided by my operating system (e.g. “Emoji & Symbols” menus in MacOS)

No, and I'm not in academia

Unicode, custom operators, type and value checking

Bindings to an AI framework such as Caffe or tensorflow

Maybe, but it's not a big problem

I cloned the Rakudo GitHub repository

Web Development, Prototyping, Web scraping, General Scripting

No, and I don't want to use unicode characters in my source code

No, and I'm not in academia

Better c++ native call. And more examples.

Yes, but it didn't impact my choice of exploring Perl 6

Most recent from GitHub (HEAD)

Data Science, Making tools for software development, One-time scripts

Yes, I use XCompose/WinCompose, Yes, I use `digraphs` utility

Yes, I chose to use it by myself