The quite usable version of Rakudo Perl 6 is planned to be released on spring (northern hemisphere’s Spring, probably ). We”ll see how useful it is and what one can do with it

On the other hand, Perl 5 is still being developed, and is very useful and commonly used. This gives Perl 6 developers no urge to do it faster. This may cause two problems:

• it may never be finished, as Duke Nukem Forever
• it may be finished, but not widely used (as some people like Perl 5, and others already  switched to Python )

What do you think about Perl 6?

See also:

1. Perl, PHP, corporate – continued.
2. Perl 5.11.3
3. Perl as good as java, python and PHP way above