Full stack and ops generalist. Have built first version of a startup from requirements / business analysis through front end, backend (Ruby on Rails), payment, email (AWS SES), sms integrations, infrastructure design and deployment on dedicated servers with Ansible. Interest in security and secure messaging.
It seems the perception of Perl 6 as a long delayed update to Perl 5 is a serious problem for the languages. Perl 6 is not really the next version of Perl 5, it is more like another language.
Perl 5 is still under active development. The latest stable release was version 18.2, made in January. Perl 5 will continue to exist even when more people start using Perl 6. Also, Perl 6 is available and usable already.
I have learnt it, a bit, for amateur radio, where it is still used. There are lots of wee applications for it too, like showing status messages on a small electronic device using a single LED.
There have been times I have wished more people know it, for example for communicating with light accross a mountain valley, or communicating underwater.