Which features have been back ported to 5? I'm the one actually did that, and they never made it into 5.
The only 6 feature in 5 is say.
Switch was broken, given/when is broken, threads are no threads, there's still no proper OO, nor FFI not types. No proper scalars, arrays or hashes. No native types. Code attributes, objects, classes. The list goes on.
Not going on ver.6 while almost unexpectedly its best features are quickly backported to ver. 5 is the main thing most ignorant people have missed