This is alas the chicken and egg scenario and the most common reason I hear for people not wanting to invest the time in pony.

The vast majority of people I discuss it with understand the value and the problems it is designed to solve, but they either don't have domain-problems that require pony's approach more than any other language - or the lack of supporting libraries makes them nervous over adoption.

As a pony developer for 5+ years, it can be frustrating - but I do understand.