Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
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Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#2Discussion from 4 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957307
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#3I wish these language websites would put an example of some code right there on the homepage so I can see what the language "feels" like. I finally found some code in the tutorials https://tutorial.ponylang.io/getting-started/hello-world
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#4>This is a type declaration. The keyword actor means we are going to define an actor, which is a bit like a class in Python, Java, C#, C++, etc. Pony has classes too, which we’ll see later.
> The difference between an actor and a class is that an actor can have asynchronous methods, called behaviours. We’ll talk more about that later.
Who wrote this[1]? The Doctor?
[1] https://tutorial.ponylang.io/getting-started/how-it-works
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#5Notable for the GC (ORCA) and the sharing model. They have a Zulip[0] and a weekly office hours.
Sylvan Clebsch is now working on Project Verona[1].
0. https://ponylang.zulipchat.com
1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#6I wish these language websites would put an example of some code right there on the homepage so I can see what the language "feels" like. I finally found some code in the tutorials https://tutorial.ponylang.io/getting-started/hello-world
Exactly. A "try language" demo should dive right into an editable executor with syntax highlighting and API-docs floating tool tip code completion. Make it as painless and fast to understand as possible.
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#7I gave it an honest look for 5 minutes and after still only having found a 3-line hello world I gave up (and came here to complain).
It's great that you have all that philosophy behind it, all sounded great, but if you don't show me a compelling example in the first minute or two, not even in tutorial, then you'll fail to capture my interest.
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#8Discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957307
Thanks!
Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957307 - Jan 2021 (152 comments)
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#9I wish these language websites would put an example of some code right there on the homepage so I can see what the language "feels" like. I finally found some code in the tutorials https://tutorial.ponylang.io/getting-started/hello-world
Example pony applications: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/main/examples
Playground: https://playground.ponylang.io/
They're on HP https://www.ponylang.io/ unfortunately the article link points to /discover/
Re: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
#10I gave it an honest look for 5 minutes and after still only having found a 3-line hello world I gave up (and came here to complain). It's great that you have all that philosophy behind it, all sounded great, but if you don't show me a compelling example in the first minute or two, not even in tutorial, then you'll fail to capture my interest.
Example pony applications: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/main/examples
Playground: https://playground.ponylang.io/
They're on HP https://www.ponylang.io/ unfortunately the article link points to /discover/