I'm a Perl5 programmer so I don't really care (though the Rakudo implementation of Perl6 should be at least worth a test drive sometime next year from what I hear from the other camp).
v12 of the runtime for -my- language of choice should be out in the next couple of months, complete with pluggable keyword support blessed in core and a whole bunch of other goodies. And Perl5 is being cleaned up over time - strict and warnings going on by default if you ask for a new enough version of the VM, old and weird misfeatures going through deprecation cycles, etc.
Perl5 and Perl6 are two different languages from the same family, not a "next version" and "previous version" like python is - the confusing naming is a historical accident from before Larry turned Perl5 over to its community and we got the chance to pick up development again.
v12 of the runtime for -my- language of choice should be out in the next couple of months, complete with pluggable keyword support blessed in core and a whole bunch of other goodies. And Perl5 is being cleaned up over time - strict and warnings going on by default if you ask for a new enough version of the VM, old and weird misfeatures going through deprecation cycles, etc.
Perl5 and Perl6 are two different languages from the same family, not a "next version" and "previous version" like python is - the confusing naming is a historical accident from before Larry turned Perl5 over to its community and we got the chance to pick up development again.