Built-in facilities for the language to parse, transform and extend itself (std grammar, macros). Prospect of multiple back-ends (compile to dotnet or LLVM targets like Javascript). Feel like you're living in the future (Perl6 has been in the future for so long now).
On 11 August 2015 at 21:42, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they > all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value to > "ordinary" Perl 5 users. If one wants to sell long-time Perl 5 users > (already using the latest Perl 5, Moose, etc.) on the value of Perl 6, what > should be on the important feature list? > > For me, stronger typing, named subroutine arguments, better classes and > namespaces, object methods, and eventually better concurrency and compiled > program persistence are among goodies long awaited. > > Thanks. > > -Tom > > The reason for my request is to help with a better introduction in my modest > draft tutorial on converting Perl 5 to Perl 6 code at the Perl Monastery. I > am comfortable with the example code I use there (which is not currently > intended to showcase new features), but I am getting several comments on why > one should even bother with Perl 6?
