Pony is a compile to native code actor-based language. It's designed to make it easy to write fast, safe applications. It has a unique type system that enforces data race safety at the type system level while not requiring all data to be copied when sending messages from one actor to another.

I'm going to be doing a post within the next couple monthes about why we selected Pony. And the pains and advantages that we got from using it.

I gave a talk at QCon NY in June that covers some of the ground that the forthcoming post will:

https://www.monkeysnatchbanana.com/2017/09/02/qcon-ny-pony/

It nice not to have to write the actor design pattern from scratch.

In other cases languages abuse their new found ability.