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So you like languages that treat whitespace as syntax. That's fine, we all have our preferences :D

You can do this: try somearray(outofboundindex)? // stuff else errorlog.write("some message") error end Sure you can make it propogate all the way up if you really want, but ugh… w…

It's less than a third of the others which are compared. As with all things, we should use the correct language / runtime for the domain problems it's designed to solve. The pony r…

There's a whole lot of discussion below so I'm just going to tag from here. I think of pony actors in the same way as I think of erlang actors. They have a "mailbox", and when they…

Pony schedulers default behaviour is as follows: 1. One scheduler per core. 2. Schedulers run one actor behaviour at a time. 3. When a scheduler has an empty work queue, they will …

This is alas the chicken and egg scenario and the most common reason I hear for people not wanting to invest the time in pony. The vast majority of people I discuss it with underst…

Pony is a strongly typed language. If you want your functions to return an Optional Type, define an Optional Type. For example, the OpenFile API returns you either a valid pony Fil…

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "real-time safe GC algorithms", but pony is not a language that has being a "real time system" as a design goal. This pony paper here des…

It is not whitespace signficant. That is indented to assist the human reader, not the compiler.

TO be clear… The switched because they changed their business focus from one of their products to another. I'm sure we'd all agree that the best language to use is the language the…

I use pony https://ponylang.io/ as a language - it's an Actor based language with GC where every actor has its own memory and is responsible for its own GC. The main feature is its…