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   by decklebench 11y ago

   Thanks for the positive tone! Regarding annotations, the "Fast & Cheap" paper contains the following: The language uses carefully chosen default capabilities to minimise the required annotations. In addition, the compiler guid
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   by decklebench 11y ago

   The term "capability” is much older than Pony, and the concept was proposed in the 60s. We would have loved to use a different word, but there are not enough different recognisable words in the English language. We use capabilities in
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   by decklebench 11y ago

   Exactly: it will clean an actor, once there are no messages to it, and it has no work to do, and there are no references to it (or any references come from such actors which have no work themselves -- i.e. are in a cycle).
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   by decklebench 11y ago

   http://www.causality.io/#team
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   by decklebench 11y ago

   The benchmarks reported on the web page ( http://ponylang.org ) and also reported at http://ponylang.org/papers/fast-cheap.pdf are more recent, and for these the code was run for different languages, and on o
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   by decklebench 11y ago

   We are just emerging from stealth mode... sorry. The web site is up and running now (modulo DNS update)