SnowyOwl

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   by SnowyOwl 11y ago

   Indeed, the type system when explained in detail is not that simple. Nevertheless, we believe that it can be used without detailed knowledge. In our experience, programmers can pick up the system fast (e.g. after a 2 hour discussion). Simil
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   by SnowyOwl 11y ago

   In Akka, message arguments have to be immutable objects - similarly for Erlang; Pony can pass isolated references which can be mutated and passed on, while still being data-race free. Scala is based on Java, and thus it is not data-race fre
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   by SnowyOwl 11y ago

   Indeed, Pony can automatically detect actors with empty stacks and message queues, also when these are part of a cycle.
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   by SnowyOwl 11y ago

   We will have more benchmarks soon. Pony is between 2 and 3 times faster than Erlang on these benchmarks.
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   by SnowyOwl 11y ago

   Do you mean whether Pony requires/allows braces to delimit functions, or class definitions? If so, the answer is no, as they are superfluous.
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   by SnowyOwl 11y ago

   Actor based; type safe; data-race free; copy-less message passing; easy to write fast programs; non-null types; algebraic data types; ... Is there a specific language you would like to compare with?