Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

well i don't know about development moving "back" to perl5 since the communities have virtually no overlap. my guess is if perl6 ever terminated, the interested parties would probably move on to some other prototypical thing

in any case, perl6 is doing fine. both parrot and rakudo are making regular releases...they're well on their way toward their goal. the question for developers is if the perl6 team goals coincide with their own.