[imtringued]

To me Pony looks like a mix between Kotlin/Ceylon and Rust and at the same also happens to pickup all the low hanging fruit of programming language features that most "modern" languages haven't even attempted to pick up yet.

Rust has some flaws. Kotlin has some flaws. Pony appears to have even less flaws than either.

Of course I have merely read the tutorial. In practice it could be worse than either.

[steveklabnik]

I often describe Pony and Rust as fellow travelers. They're following roughly the same path, but they have different constraints, and so they've made different choices that are suitable for what they need.