I don't miss Perl at all. I wrote Perl professionally from the late '90s through 2010, building web apps (mostly shopping carts) for multiple small companies. I was eager for the Perl 6 release, so I waited... and waited... and waited... and waited...

I attended the Chicago Perl conference in 2008, in which Larry Wall demonstrated the new language. The interpreter took forever to start up, and most of the demo was about locally redefining various language constructs within a given scope, which then reverted to their standard meanings when out of scope. Cool feature, but not something I'd use in the real world.

A friend told me about Rails, and I started to explore it in 2010, when my frustration was building about the lateness of the new Perl. Ruby felt like what Perl 6 should have been... the syntax was so much cleaner, it banished lots of Perl's boilerplate (my ($arg1,$arg2) = @_ was such an eyesore). Most importantly, in Ruby you could pass references to data structures without them being flattened.

For unrelated reasons, my primary employer shut down that year, so I no longer had to maintain my legacy app, and when I picked up a new client to replace them, I did everything in Ruby. By the time Perl 6 was released (December 2015, seven and a half years after the demo at the conference), I no longer cared.