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I'm an engineer at Wallaroo Labs and I've been writing Pony for the last two years. We're using pony_stable (which is the primary package manager at the moment

I'm an engineer at Wallaroo Labs and I've been writing Pony for the last two years. We're using pony_stable (which is the primary package manager at the moment) and make for managing builds. I currently use Sublime 3 as my editor and lldb for debugging. I know that others are using emacs and vim as well. We did consider Rust as there are certainly overlaps in their approaches to safety (though coming from different angles). In the end we thought that Pony would be better for managing concurrency for our particular use cases, which we thought mapped well onto the actor model.

kodablah 9y ago
> we thought mapped well onto the actor model. Out of curiosity, were there a widely accepted actor lib/approach in Rust (I know there are a few like RobotS and others), would that have affected your decision?
- spooneybarger 9y ago
  It might have. When we were looking at Rust, it was a topic of conversation.
  - steveklabnik 9y ago
    In general, it's not a space where there's a hyper-mature library, but there are some cool stuff happening today: http://cityboundsim.com/devblog/my-full-rustfest-talk-with-networking-live-demo http://cityboundsim.com/devblog/my-full-rustfest-talk-with-n... That said, I mean, if you want to go full actors, Pony is a great choice.
    - Cyph0n 9y ago
      Oh wow, I used to follow Citybound development a while ago when it was still written in JS. Anselm is an amazingly talented developer and it's great to see him working with Rust!