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Pony looks interesting anyone using it in prod. ?

wallaroo labs is using it at scale, that's the only company I'm familiar with.

It should be noted that is where Pony was born.

Additionally, one of the language designers, Sylvan Clebsch, now works at Microsoft Research, so in a way Microsoft is also sponsoring the work on Pony.

Hi,

I'm the VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs. Pony existed prior to Wallaroo Labs using it, but we have been very instrumental in pushing the language and runtime forward. We've contributed a lot of code to Pony.

If you are interested in the early history of Pony you can learn more from Sylvan's post here:

https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...

Thanks for the heads up and link.

You're welcome!

AFAIK Sylvan no longer does much Pony work. At least as far as the contribution graphs on GitHub show[1].

1 - https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/graphs/contributors

The GitHub contribution graph can be deceptive. The stuff Sylvan is working on these days tends to be deeper things that take a long time to get correct and often is a small amount of code.

He definitely isn't churning out tons of code for Pony these days. He is still, however, actively involved. From time to time, big new things from him show up. The latest one has been cooking for several months now and probably won't show up for a few more.

You're referring to the distributed Actor model?

There are others, but we at Wallaroo Labs are the only ones that I know of that are talking about it.

After digging around doesn't look like there is a usable PG client :(

Several people started one as a "first Pony project". I'm not aware of anyone completing one.

Pony is very "roll your own libraries" or "wrap a c library" at this point in time. Still pre-1.0.

Lots of chance for folks to contribute and make there mark is the optimistic way I look at it. Pessimistic view is "not many libraries".

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