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How is it compared to the D language?

• spooneybarger 7y ago
  Rather different. Our goals when creating Pony are two make a high-performance, safe languages for writing highly concurrent applications. Pony is much more opinionated than D. A really quick version of "what is Pony" would probably be: "Like Erlang meets Rust"
  • zzzcpan 7y ago
    > "Like Erlang meets Rust" Pony is more like just Rust and nothing like Erlang.
    • Mikeb85 7y ago
      Concurrency by using an actor model is the Erlang part...
      • spooneybarger 7y ago
        Scott Fritchie did an excellent talk on the similarities and differences called "The wide world of almost-actors: comparing the Pony to BEAM languages" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0m0_qtfzLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0m0_qtfzLs
• tzjmetron 7y ago
  Completely different style. Both are GCed though. Learning curve in PonyLang is insane compared to D.