Comment by spooneybarger | Hacker News Reader

Comment by spooneybarger | Hacker News Reader

O my! Hi Pony core contributor here. Normally when I submit releases to HN, they kind of silently die. I was surprised to come back and see this on the front page. I'll check the comments from time to time and try to answer questions.

While I have your attention:

Pony is an all volunteer project. We could really use your support. We'd love to get more contributors of all stripes. Code, documentation, design work. All of it! Come by the developer mailing list (https://pony.groups.io/g/dev) or #ponylang channel on Freenode and we'll get you started.

And if you can't contribute time, we are now taking donations to help pay for expenses: https://opencollective.com/ponyc

O also, if you are in London in early November. Sylvan and I are doing a Pony tutorial at Code Sync. Tickets are still available. If you click on the tutorial title on this page: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-mesh-2018/tutorial/

Tickets are still available.

_edited to fix broken links_

What lang ecosystem with an interactive REPL do you see as the best fit for pairing with and driving Pony?

I've been dreaming of ways to help bootstrap the Pony lang/lib interop story and build toward a numerical interactive programming environment, being able to combine Pony's native async Actor model and runtime safety guarantees, while also safely being able to hook into to an external ecosystems existing numerical computing, data structure, and GPU/TPU accelerator libs.

I seem to remember someone giving a lang talk a while back where in the Q&A the speaker said integrating with Pony might be a good fit. I was looking into dependent types at the time...it may have been Idris or OCaml, and hooking into the Julia ecosystem would be most interesting, with maybe even Zig acting like low-level LLVM glue code binding all the external C libs together.

In my dream I have it all and the Pony too! All the lang libs are hooked together in a typed-provable way, and when fully connected they combine to form a high-performance, interactive parallel distributed programming environment, and it runs in the browser too. What do you think, is that too much of a DeepDream?

Ideally something with a C-FFI interface and a runtime without a lot of concurrency opinions.

Hooking up Python and Pony is fairly straightforward for example. We've done it at Wallaroo Labs. That's very much "embedded a Python interpreter inside a Pony process" approach. Perhaps you are thinking of something different?

I'm not really sure what you are thinking of. If you sent your ideas to the user mailing list, someone might have some ideas. Something a bit more concrete might help on that front.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com