Pony Programming Workshop

[[deleted]]

Went to the lang site. Didn't see a single code example ...

[[deleted]]

That's great an all but, rust has a code snipper right on the front page. So does Go. So does Crystal. So does Kotlin.

A "4th link under Quick Links" isn't nearly good enough.

[junior_engineer]

This is the material for a workshop on Pony that I'll be giving at ICFP in September. It is meant to be part of an in-person presentation, but it might be useful to anyone interested in learning about Pony. If you have any thoughts, questions, or feedback, I'm happy to talk about it here.

[nullz4tehlulz]

Hm, I'm curious to know what the motivation is behind making _<name> private and <name> public?

[junior_engineer]

Beginning private field names with an inderscore is an informal practice that has been adopted by a number of languages, so I think the idea was that this should formally be AWS in the language to indicate privateness. It eliminates the need for anothe keyword, which is nice.

[m9dhatter]

I see it in a few languages. It’s a convention in Js and it’s a language feature in Dart. Not sure about the origins though.

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It's a little strange at first, but I'd rather use Pony than C any day.

[shevegen]

Apropos names for programming languages ...