Technical issues were never the problem with the first product we built at Wallaroo. Pony met all of our technical needs for that product. We never got product market fit with it.
Rightly, around the time I left the company, they pivoted and started a new product that they thought would have better product market fit and they started over with a new codebase as it is a rather different product than what we first built.
Arguably the non-technical issues are equally important and, according to the essay, those were the reasons they ended up choosing Rust going forwards.
>Pony [...] has a smaller community, and as a small startup we were better off not having to solve problems outside our core domain
>wealth of available libraries
>access to a large community that will guarantee ongoing future support
>a wide variety of tools
>much larger pool of engineers who are eager to learn and work in Rust, or who already have significant Rust experience
>more resources available for learning Rust, and more opportunities for participation in conferences, etc.
Didn't say that Pony was bad for some technical reason. It was/is bad choice for a startup to use due to being a relatively new, niche language.
Rightly, around the time I left the company, they pivoted and started a new product that they thought would have better product market fit and they started over with a new codebase as it is a rather different product than what we first built.