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Pony isn't that well known, here's their home page, for the curious. [0] I remember a recent HN comment said that if you create a website for your new programm
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Pony isn't that well known, here's their home page, for the curious. [0]
I remember a recent HN comment said that if you create a website for your new programming language, you should always ensure there's a meaningful example right there on the landing page. A pity that Pony's page fails to do this. Here's one of their example programs. [1]
[0] https://www.ponylang.io/ https://www.ponylang.io/
[1] https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/main/examples/timers/timers.pony https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/main/examples/timers/...
- nerdponx 6y agoAlso, to my recollection Pony is meant to be somewhat specialized for high-concurrency server applications, not for general-purpose tools/libraries. It seems like it's best grouped together with Go, Erlang, Elixir, and Crystal.