Pony is such a cool project, it's what Go could have been if it wasn't stuck in the middle of the eighties : it has a super expressive type-system, and a bit like in Rust, it gives you the data-race freedom.
(this has nthing to do with wallaroo or kafka but:) go isn't stuck in the 80s it just stuck on Rob Pike's belief that him personally being lazy and jury rigging in general is "simple" and a virtue.
I don’t think that making criticisms personal like that accomplished anything useful. The fact that a large number of other people agree with his decisions suggests that it’s not “being lazy” and more balancing different goals. It would be far more productive to understand those pressures rather than simply assuming the worst.
Any criticism of any project Rob Pike has been attached to or Pike himself has over the last 40 years accomplished nothing no matter if they are technical or personal.
I really wish it gains traction.