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wallaroo labs is using it at scale, that's the only company I'm familiar with.
by bketelsen 8y ago
wallaroo labs is using it at scale, that's the only company I'm familiar with.
- pjmlp 8y agoIt should be noted that is where Pony was born. Additionally, one of the language designers, Sylvan Clebsch, now works at Microsoft Research, so in a way Microsoft is also sponsoring the work on Pony.
- spooneybarger 8y agoHi, I'm the VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs. Pony existed prior to Wallaroo Labs using it, but we have been very instrumental in pushing the language and runtime forward. We've contributed a lot of code to Pony. If you are interested in the early history of Pony you can learn more from Sylvan's post here: https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pony/ https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...
- pjmlp 8y agoThanks for the heads up and link.
- spooneybarger 8y agoYou're welcome!
- dom96 8y agoAFAIK Sylvan no longer does much Pony work. At least as far as the contribution graphs on GitHub show[1]. 1 - https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/graphs/contributors https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/graphs/contributors
- spooneybarger 8y agoThe GitHub contribution graph can be deceptive. The stuff Sylvan is working on these days tends to be deeper things that take a long time to get correct and often is a small amount of code. He definitely isn't churning out tons of code for Pony these days. He is still, however, actively involved. From time to time, big new things from him show up. The latest one has been cooking for several months now and probably won't show up for a few more.
- espeed 8y agoYou're referring to the distributed Actor model?
- spooneybarger 8y agoThere are others, but we at Wallaroo Labs are the only ones that I know of that are talking about it.