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I was excited about Pony a few years ago. But then the company went bust and development slowed down. I checked it out again ~ 1 year ago and both language an

I was excited about Pony a few years ago. But then the company went bust and development slowed down. I checked it out again ~ 1 year ago and both language and ecosystem did not look terribly healthy or active. What's the current status? ps: I love the video + synchronized slides side by side. I wish this was more common for talks. There should be resizing functionality though.

pjmlp 6y ago
It is being researched at Imperial College London, which hosts a Microsoft Research unit, it was brought there as Sylvan Clebsch joined Microsoft. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/pony-co-designing-type-system-runtime/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/pony-co-desig... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-verona/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...
spooneybarger 6y ago
Hi, Excellent question. I can't address "healthy or active" as those would really be your own metrics to decide. We have a lot of things going on including: Work on a new dependency manager: https://github.com/ponylang/corral https://github.com/ponylang/corral Work on an installation tool to make it easier to get started with Pony: https://github.com/ponylang/corral https://github.com/ponylang/corral A lot of work has gone into making our release process across projects much easier to deal with as it was problematic before. Joe, a core team member, has been working on ideas to address problems that we've seen folks experience with Pony. He has a semi-functional experimental compiler that will hopefully see the light of day eventually. We've been working on some runtime improvements that will eventually see the light of day. Most of the work that goes on these days is in repos other than the ponyc repo that most people tend to look at. In the end, the important thing to know is that Pony is a volunteer driven project and thus, moves at a different timeline than something like Go or Rust with a lot of backing. Those of working on Pony are doing it because we believe that in the long run, the time we put in outside of our jobs will be worth it. But our timeline is probably a lot longer than other folks. -Sean, a Pony core team member.

pjmlp 6y ago

It is being researched at Imperial College London, which hosts a Microsoft Research unit, it was brought there as Sylvan Clebsch joined Microsoft. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/pony-co-designing-type-system-runtime/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/pony-co-desig... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-verona/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...

spooneybarger 6y ago

Hi, Excellent question. I can't address "healthy or active" as those would really be your own metrics to decide. We have a lot of things going on including: Work on a new dependency manager: https://github.com/ponylang/corral https://github.com/ponylang/corral Work on an installation tool to make it easier to get started with Pony: https://github.com/ponylang/corral https://github.com/ponylang/corral A lot of work has gone into making our release process across projects much easier to deal with as it was problematic before. Joe, a core team member, has been working on ideas to address problems that we've seen folks experience with Pony. He has a semi-functional experimental compiler that will hopefully see the light of day eventually. We've been working on some runtime improvements that will eventually see the light of day. Most of the work that goes on these days is in repos other than the ponyc repo that most people tend to look at. In the end, the important thing to know is that Pony is a volunteer driven project and thus, moves at a different timeline than something like Go or Rust with a lot of backing. Those of working on Pony are doing it because we believe that in the long run, the time we put in outside of our jobs will be worth it. But our timeline is probably a lot longer than other folks. -Sean, a Pony core team member.