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it's really frustrating seeing these programming languages websites where you have to click in a million place before you can even see what the code looks like

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Is there an a page with more than a few lines of code to show what actual Pony programs look like?

There are a number of simple examples in the ponyc repo:

https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/master/examples

You can find a number of pony library projects under the ponylang org on GitHub:

https://github.com/ponylang/

I think you should consider showing some code on the front page, like D [0] or Ruby [1], or maybe have a "Try Pony" button that links to an online playground.

0: https://dlang.org/

1: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

We do have an online playground! You can try it here: https://playground.ponylang.io/

It's linked from the page, but we should make it more obvious.

Even when I knew it was there it took me a while to find it, so yeah, at the very least put it under its own header, first or second one.

Thanks, exactly what I needed to be confident that I should move on.

See also the Patterns part of the tutorial.

https://patterns.ponylang.io/

Do you have some examples of programming language websites you do like?

I really like Crystal's website [0]. It lets the code to the talking and has nice big buttons for "Install", "Learn", and "Try Online".

0: https://crystal-lang.org/

the few that come to mind : Elvish : https://elv.sh/ Flix : https://flix.dev/ Crystal : https://crystal-lang.org/ Nim : https://nim-lang.org/

https://flix.dev/

This is the best page I have seen so far.

Go is probably the best for this, it gives you a REPL on the homepage itself: https://golang.org/

And Rust has https://play.rust-lang.org/ - not a REPL, but a chance to kick the tyres before downloading anything.

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