You sure about that? Sylvan Clebsch [1] -- Pony's creator -- is now part of Microsoft Research [2], has been working on a distributed actor model, and is presenting on Pony at QCon London next week [3].

[1] https://github.com/sylvanc

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/syclebsc/

[3] https://qconlondon.com/speakers/sylvan-clebsch

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