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An Early History of Pony
- gocolts23 9y agoI've never heard of Pony, there is a whole lot of reading without an example code. I expected to see examples on "New to Pony", "Learning Pony" tutorial.
- virtualwhys 9y agoTutorial contains a nice overview of language features and usage[1] [1] https://tutorial.ponylang.org/ https://tutorial.ponylang.org/
- ricardobeat 9y agoI think what he's saying is it's hard to get to the code. If you open this on mobile for example, there is a whole lot of scrolling to do before you eventually realize there is an arrow at the very bottom, which will eventually lead into a three-line code sample.
- cpeterso 9y ago> Unfortunately, a start-up based on a programming language is a notoriously bad idea. I’m not saying it’s impossible - but there isn’t a great track record for them Any examples of successful startups based on a new programming language? Lightbend (previously Typesafe) worked on Scala, but the language existed before the company.
- Someone 9y agoIf you leave out _new_, as the OP did, there's at least one example: Microsoft.
- digitalzombie 9y agoThat's funny. Microsoft took the main guy from Pony. They're really invested in languages like C# and F#. I guess you gotta be a big established company to afford to maintain programming language. Google have Go. Ericsson got Erlang.
- tjalfi 9y agoForth Inc[0] might qualify. The company was founded by Chuck Moore and Elizabeth Rather in 1971. Chuck invented Forth and Elizabeth was the second person to learn it. [0] https://www.forth.com/software-development-company/ https://www.forth.com/software-development-company/
- rurban 9y agoI like that seeing my name being mentioned