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Raku is basically perl 6 and has some features that blew my mind when I tried it a few years back.

Never really did much with it, but it was enjoyable to learn.

This encapsulates every conversation I have ever had with someone who tried Perl 6: Tried it, was blown away with [some aspect of it], never found anything practical to do with it, never used it again.

I think I even reference that in the talk... Dart is everything I wanted from Perl 6, which is why I'm happy to be coding in Dart now.

If you're into Lisp you're probably not missing that much. The main reason I use Perl over Lisp is that Perl is preinstalled nearly everywhere, whereas Lisp is not.

You should really look at Tcl if coming from Lisp and wanting a bash successor. Tcl (8.5) is also preinstalled on MacOS.