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Development has definitely slowed and the creator has moved on to other things.

I've played around with it and my main takeaway is that it's easier to create an actor system in an existing language than to create an entire ecosystem around Pony.

Can you please make your substantive points without breaking the site guidelines? They include:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not sure, but the last commit on the github repo was 12 hours ago.

They used Pony as a good fit for their first project. They later made a second project with better market fit, and for that project Rust was a better fit.

Last time I checked, it was language backed by a research group.