Its performance has been absolutely terrible though. They've been (rightly) focused on features first.
But note that Perl6 on JVM is doing very well. I believe the effort is about a year old, and they've been performance optimizing it for a fraction of that time. And that's with nearly all of the 'remarkably complete' features.
Last time I did a benchmark a few months ago, Perl6 on JVM was very roughly 2x slower than Perl5. With Perl6's native but optional typing, I fully expect that Perl6 on JVM will get even faster than Perl5.
This year, I need to evaluate a 'scripting' language to run inside of big Java processes, and I'm going to give Perl6 a very close look.
Perl6 as an language is remarkably complete. http://perl6.org/compilers/features
Its performance has been absolutely terrible though. They've been (rightly) focused on features first.
But note that Perl6 on JVM is doing very well. I believe the effort is about a year old, and they've been performance optimizing it for a fraction of that time. And that's with nearly all of the 'remarkably complete' features.
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
Last time I did a benchmark a few months ago, Perl6 on JVM was very roughly 2x slower than Perl5. With Perl6's native but optional typing, I fully expect that Perl6 on JVM will get even faster than Perl5.
This year, I need to evaluate a 'scripting' language to run inside of big Java processes, and I'm going to give Perl6 a very close look.