A high performance Actor-based language is fairly unique. Pony is also very fast for a garbage collected language.

Also the syntax is great, probably my favourite language ever syntactically. Dunno why there's a pointless argument about it in these comments...

The reference capabilities are fairly novel as well. Apart from the lack of tooling, writing in Pony is great.

If the syntax is great (I agree it doesn't seem bad at first glance) then the website attempting to sell the language should quickly demonstrate that syntax and capabilities. This is what the argument was about. "Can we see the syntax without clicking a dozen links?" "No, the syntax is not important."