[LLVMdev] Pony Language: LLVM Project

[Sebastian Blessing]

Great! Thank you very much for your support!

Best,
Sebastian

From: John Criswell
Date: Thursday 25 June 2015 00:04
To: Sebastian Blessing, "LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu<mailto:LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu>"
Subject: Re: FW: [LLVMdev] Pony Language: LLVM Project

Dear Sebastian,

I've added an entry to the ProjectsWithLLVM page (http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/#pony).  Please take a look; I modified some of the text to fix spelling and punctuation.  If something needs to be adjusted, please let me know.

Regards,

John Criswell

On 6/23/15 10:57 AM, Sebastian Blessing wrote:
Dear John,

Unfortunately, I haven’t received any feedback for this. Could you help me out on this?

Best,
Sebastian

From: Sebastian Blessing
Date: Friday 8 May 2015 13:12
To: John Criswell
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Pony Language: LLVM Project

Dear John,

Eric mentioned you are making frequent updates to the llvm.org website. For Pony, we could add something like:

Pony Programming Language

By <a href=“http://www.ponylang.org”>the Pony Development Team</a<https://github.com/smackers/smack/wiki/Smackers%22%3Esmackers%3C/a>>

Pony is an object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language. It emphasises a concurrent mindset by extending the class model with the actor model, such that actors are first-class citizens. The language is statically typed, type- and memory-safe and comes with a collection of powerful guarantees: No data races, no uncaught exceptions, no deadlocks. Pony implements a mark-and-don’t-sweep garbage collector without requiring generations or read and write barriers. There is no “stop-the-world” step required. All message passing between actors is causal.

Do you want me to submit a patch for this, or would you like to update the website?

Greatly appreciate your support,
Sebastian

From: Eric Christopher
Date: Friday 8 May 2015 00:04
To: Sebastian Blessing, "LLVM Developers Mailing List (llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu<mailto:llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>)", Tanya Lattner, John Criswell
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Pony Language: LLVM Project

You can take a look at:

http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/www/trunk/

which is the repository for it and you can access it via svn. I know John adds things to the website fairly frequently as well.

-eric

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:44 PM Sebastian Blessing <sebastian at causality.io<mailto:sebastian at causality.io>> wrote:
Thank you, Eric.

Could you point me to the repository for the website where I can submit the patch to?

Thanks,
Sebastian

From: Eric Christopher
Date: Thursday 7 May 2015 23:31
To: Sebastian Blessing, "llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu<mailto:llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>"
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Pony Language: LLVM Project

Seems reasonable. A patch to the site would be appreciated.

-eric

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:29 PM Sebastian Blessing <sebastian at causality.io<mailto:sebastian at causality.io>> wrote:
Dear LLVM community,

I am affiliated with the design and development of the Pony<http:/www.ponylang.org> programming language, which was recently published and has since been discussed on hacker news<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9482483>, reddit [1]<http://www.reddit.com/r/ponylang> [2]<https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/34rszb/pony_type_and_memory_safe_language/>, lambda the ultimate<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5148> and gained some momentum.

Short abstract of the language:

  *   Actor based
  *   Capabilities-secure<http://tutorial.ponylang.org/capabilities/introduction/>
  *   Type safe
  *   Memory safe
  *   Exception safe
  *   Data-race free
  *   Deadlock free
  *   Non-blocking, fully concurrent GC for objects and actors
  *   AOT compiled
  *   Native C FFI (C/C++ can call Pony, Pony can call C)

Pony is open-source<http://www.github.com/CausalityLtd/ponyc> (2-clause BSD) and runs on Mac OSX, Linux and Windows (x86_64).

Our compiler is based on the LLVM backend. Would it therefore be possible to be named as official project on http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/ ?

A preliminary (work-in-progress) tutorial is available at http://tutorial.ponylang.org.

Best,
Sebastian

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