This is interesting - you wanted actors, you wanted a pleasant programming language and you wanted to be on the JVM.
I'm curious why you didn't choose Kotlin with Vert.X . Kotlin is a small town language that won only because it was loved by the community...Nobody "pushed" it. And it has won - it's now officially supported by Google.
We decided for a number of reasons that the JVM wasn't the right fit for us, so we didn't end up considering Kotlin.
Pony is being actively developed, and has been as long as we've been using it. Since some of our team are now core contributors to the language, we've also invested in improving Pony, which has proven to be very useful to us.
I'm curious why you didn't choose Kotlin with Vert.X . Kotlin is a small town language that won only because it was loved by the community...Nobody "pushed" it. And it has won - it's now officially supported by Google.
Vertx is a superb actor model framework with first class kotlin support. Its extremely high performance (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i...) and is pretty popular (http://vertx.io/whos_using/)
From a forward looking perspective, why Pony ... Especially if it's development has stalled.