I'm not sure there will be an official Perl 6 shipment. I did recently download the February Rakudo Star (which compiles Perl 6 into Parrot VM bytecode), and I've enjoyed playing around with it. Fair disclosure: I've been writing and loving Perl 5 since 1999.
The difficulty right now for anyone from a Perl 5 background who would otherwise jump into Perl 6, is that running your Perl 6 program is really, really slow. I don't know if it's the compile step or execution or something else.
The difficulty right now for anyone from a Perl 5 background who would otherwise jump into Perl 6, is that running your Perl 6 program is really, really slow. I don't know if it's the compile step or execution or something else.