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I really wish someone from the Pony community would write a book. The official tutorials are nice, but the parts on the various reference capabilities onwards i
by tzjmetron 7y ago
I really wish someone from the Pony community would write a book. The official tutorials are nice, but the parts on the various reference capabilities onwards is extremely confusing (and sort of bare).
I know it's a small community, and there really is no official corporate backing, but right now I see the lack of good learning resources as the biggest obstacle, and we have to admit that Pony has a very steep learning curve. I really do love whatever little Pony that I have explored, and the compile times are superb compared to something like Rust, and the generated executables seem to be quite fast as well.
- spooneybarger 7y agoRe: a book. The most likely candidate would be me and it's 100% certain I do not have the time right now. We've done several attempts at getting other folks to contribute more in that area and it's really hard to find people who are interested. Finding folks to contribute to most open source projects is hard in general. Finding folks to contribute to documentation, learning resources and what not is really hard. If anyone reads this and gets inspired to try and help, ping me on the Pony Zulip and I'd be happy to assist in a general "mentoring/guiding" capacity. https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/ https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/
- tzjmetron 7y agoYes, that's what I feared as well. If I had had some solid experience with Pony already, I'd volunteer in a heartbeat. Still, many thanks for helping keep Pony alive, Sean!