The designer's syntax decisions tell you a lot about their semantic decisions, which languages they take inspiration from, and the language's philosophy about things like flexibility, correctness, and opinionatedness.

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jibal 4 days ago | parent [-]

Or not. Mostly not in this case.

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arethuza 4 days ago | parent [-]

I agree, in the case of Pony the interesting stuff is mentioned on this page:

https://www.ponylang.io/discover/why-pony/

Syntax doesn't really come into it.

Edit: I'm as fond of discussions of the design of programming language syntax as everyone else - just in this case the apparent novelty of Pony is at a more fundamental level.

	▲	jibal 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed. I wonder how many people here even read the title of the post.