Comment by jkhdigital

7 years ago, my graduate distributed systems professor required everyone to complete his projects in Elixir because it was trending on HN. It was my first functional language and after getting over the initial hump I fell in love with it.

Now, I’m teaching undergraduate courses of my own and, while I do not have the flexibility to change the languages used in my current offerings, if I ever start teaching a systems programming course I will absolutely require the students to use Pony.