I agree, in the case of Pony the interesting stuff is mentioned on this page:

https://www.ponylang.io/discover/why-pony/

Syntax doesn't really come into it.

Edit: I'm as fond of discussions of the design of programming language syntax as everyone else - just in this case the apparent novelty of Pony is at a more fundamental level.

Indeed. I wonder how many people here even read the title of the post.