Sean T. Allen
Pony core team member (Wallaroo Labs)
Sean is a member of the Pony core team. His turn-ons include programming languages, distributed computing, Hiwatt amplifiers, and Fender Telecasters. His turn-offs include mayonnaise, stirring yogurt, and sloppy code. He is one of the authors of Storm Applied, and VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs.
Past Activities
Code Mesh LDN 2018
09.00 - 12.30
Writing a chat system in Pony
09:00 - 12:30
Let's write a chat system in Pony together. The actor model is a natural fit for network programming, so let's use it along with reference capabilities to write an event-driven chat system. By the time we're done, you'll be able to write message-passing based Pony programs, use reference capabilities for performance and correctness, and produce native binaries with C like performance.
OBJECTIVES
Write a chat system in Pony. The participants will be able to write event-driven Pony programs that read from and write to network connections, and they will understand the Pony actor system and reference capability system.
AUDIENCE
Developers who are interested in getting their feet wet and learning about the Pony programming language in a friendly hands-on environment.