I suppose Perl 6 "taking off" and becoming such a "poster child of "scripting languages" nowadays is not so much about "scripting languages" but rather "application platforms" instead. Gone are the days where one would just write a bunch of scripts for a cgi-bin--you're now supposed to write a complete environment for deployment onto highly redundant, low-latency clouds--bonus if going "Serverless" and transpiles to JS.
That said, Perl 6 is becoming such an attractive platform for those who have bothered themselves to go and actually try it; being a Perl 5 hacker myself, I'm taking my time learning it in parallel to a few other languages, and its interesting to see how 2 decades of wandering has brought forth. I suppose that maybe Perl 6 will become like a Lisp (in such that learning provides for a deeper appreciation,) or maybe not (e.g. we actually make https://xkcd.com/224/ happen,) but at the end I know Perl 6 will be there as a tool I can reach for.
Sounds like something that would not likely happen on other repos like the CPAN/CRAN/CTAN.
Perhaps the JS community at large would be better off with a similar system? I remember sometime long ago that there was a JSAN effort: http://www.openjsan.org/
That said, Perl 6 is becoming such an attractive platform for those who have bothered themselves to go and actually try it; being a Perl 5 hacker myself, I'm taking my time learning it in parallel to a few other languages, and its interesting to see how 2 decades of wandering has brought forth. I suppose that maybe Perl 6 will become like a Lisp (in such that learning provides for a deeper appreciation,) or maybe not (e.g. we actually make https://xkcd.com/224/ happen,) but at the end I know Perl 6 will be there as a tool I can reach for.