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I have been looking over to this language every now and then for a long while now, and this article finally motivated me to actually learn it. But it seems the
by krylon 9y ago
I have been looking over to this language every now and then for a long while now, and this article finally motivated me to actually learn it.
But it seems the documentation is a bit out of date - I cannot even get the "Hello, world"-program to build correctly, neither on Debian Stretch nor on openSUSE Tumbleweed.
It is quite frustrating if you try to learn a new language, and when you make your first step, you step on a nail.
And it is even more frustrating, because Pony looks very interesting, for the reasons the linked article explains. ):
UPDATE: On Debian, telling the pony compiler to --pic does the trick.
UPDATE2: On suse, installing binutils-gold solved the problem.
UPDATE3: Now we're talking! This language is very, very interesting, indeed!
- aturley 9y agoSorry to hear that. As far as I know the documentation should be up to date, but it's entirely possibly you've found an issue. If you like you can hit up the mailing list (https://groups.io/g/wallaroo https://groups.io/g/wallaroo) or the IRC channel (#ponylang on freednode, https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=wallaroo https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=wallaroo) to see if anybody can help, or if you think you've found a bug you can file an issue in github (https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues). UPDATE: I'm glad to hear you got it working!
- krylon 9y ago> I'm glad to hear you got it working! Me, too! This looks pretty exciting!
- spooneybarger 9y agoI'm often lurking on IRC if you need help.