[ramchip]

Out of curiosity, what pushed your team towards Pony rather than Erlang? It seems your team (or at least part of it) has experience with both languages which is interesting.

[spooneybarger]

Short answer is in another thread here.

After discussing our performance goals with folks we knew at Basho, they expressed a lot of skepticism that we could meet them with Erlang.

How to plug-in potentially heavy user computations in non-Beam based languages is an incredibly tricky problem as well.

If you'd be interested in chatting more, I'm happy to that. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16266220 for more information.