[vanderZwan]

> I feel I've benefited greatly from learning it.

I have this feeling (or maybe I should say "hope") that once you learn Pony reasonably well, you kind of take that "reference type awareness" with you and it will make you a better programmer no matter what language you are programming in. It basically makes explicit what you should already be doing implicitly.

I really should put in the effort to learn it someday