We moved from Pony to Rust
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We moved from Pony to Rust
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Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#2I guess it makes sense from business point of view, although it is a pity that Pony is losing what is probably the only commercial user (that I am aware of).
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#3Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#4Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
Making bad choices happens all the time. Learning to correct them is a good skill to build up.
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#5Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
Somebody has to be first.
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#6Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
OTOH an interesting language can be a recruiting draw. It probably helped them recruit engineers who were interested in the distributed systems and concurrency problems they were trying to solve. See for example Jane Street with OCaml.
[edit: oops, thanks for the heads up on the spelling :)]
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#7Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
For every widely used technology, someone had to be the first. And then some small group had to be the early adopters.
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#8Wasn't there a big brouhaha, many years ago, when Reddit switched from Lisp to Python?
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#9Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
OTOH an interesting language can be a recruiting draw. It probably helped them recruit engineers who were interested in the distributed systems and concurrency problems they were trying to solve. See for example Jane Street with OCaml. [edit: oops, thanks for the heads up on the spelling :)]
OCaml is old and reliable, and I think it was already proven to work in the industry when Jane Street chose it. Even if it wasn't the best programming language ever, it was still a strong choice at the time, and still is. Pony on the other hand was and still is very young. I'm not saying it's a bad choice, but it's definitely not the same risk profile as OCaml.
It's just OCaml by the way, for Objective Caml. Unless you're talking about the secret Irish fork /s.
There's a nice page on the official website about the history: https://ocaml.org/learn/history.html.
Re: We moved from Pony to Rust
#10Shocking that using a language that no one use was a mistake on the long term. It made 0 sense what so ever to use it in the first place.
I don't read this as "it was a mistake to use Pony." They state that:
> in the meantime data science and machine learning continued to explode ... With the increasing focus on MLOps, Rust became a better fit
This sounds like, "Our business goals shifted, as did the industry around data science, and Rust's maturity improved such that it made sense for us to migrate our stack."