Arguably the non-technical issues are equally important and, according to the essay, those were the reasons they ended up choosing Rust going forwards. >Pony [

Arguably the non-technical issues are equally important and, according to the essay, those were the reasons they ended up choosing Rust going forwards. >Pony [...] has a smaller community, and as a small startup we were better off not having to solve problems outside our core domain >wealth of available libraries >access to a large community that will guarantee ongoing future support >a wide variety of tools >much larger pool of engineers who are eager to learn and work in Rust, or who already have significant Rust experience >more resources available for learning Rust, and more opportunities for participation in conferences, etc. Didn't say that Pony was bad for some technical reason. It was/is bad choice for a startup to use due to being a relatively new, niche language.