I know this isn't going to happen, but I think the only way to make Perl 6 the new poster child would be to rename it. It has a lot to do with human psychology

I know this isn't going to happen, but I think the only way to make Perl 6 the new poster child would be to rename it. It has a lot to do with human psychology. People don't like that argument, but many things happening in IT have a lot more to do with psychology, sociology and marketing rather than any technical ("factual") reasons. The most technical reason probably is the cost to switch, but that reason doesn't explain many things and people do switch to new things all the time.