I've never heard of Pony, there is a whole lot of reading without an example code. I expected to see examples on "New to Pony", "Learning Pony" tutorial.
I think what he's saying is it's hard to get to the code. If you open this on mobile for example, there is a whole lot of scrolling to do before you eventually realize there is an arrow at the very bottom, which will eventually lead into a three-line code sample.
> Unfortunately, a start-up based on a programming language is a notoriously bad idea. I’m not saying it’s impossible - but there isn’t a great track record for them
Any examples of successful startups based on a new programming language? Lightbend (previously Typesafe) worked on Scala, but the language existed before the company.
Forth Inc[0] might qualify. The company was founded by Chuck Moore and Elizabeth Rather in 1971. Chuck invented Forth and Elizabeth was the second person to learn it.
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Any examples of successful startups based on a new programming language? Lightbend (previously Typesafe) worked on Scala, but the language existed before the company.
They're really invested in languages like C# and F#.
I guess you gotta be a big established company to afford to maintain programming language. Google have Go. Ericsson got Erlang.
[0] https://www.forth.com/software-development-company/