{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/ponyc/issues/511","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/ponyc/issues/511/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/ponyc/issues/511/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/ponyc/issues/511/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/511","id":130379250,"number":511,"title":"Documentation and getting started guides","user":{"login":"darach","id":229042,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/229042?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach","html_url":"https://github.com/darach","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/darach/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-02-01T14:43:45Z","updated_at":"2016-02-02T02:46:28Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Currently, pony is relatively difficult to evaluate due to a number of holes in the available\r\nresources for busy developers to consider a fuller evaluation:\r\n\r\n* Idiomatic, guided examples of small but complete pony programs ( not part of tutorial )\r\n* API Documentation online and linked via the tutorial and ponylang.org site\r\n* Use cases of successful adoptions in the community\r\n  + A great example is @jemc's pony_zmq\r\n\r\nWould be good to get @SeanTAllen, and others feedback to evaluate what we have and what the gaps are that we need to fill to improve first impressions for evaluators. Rust being a gold standard in terms of availability of the right kind of material to get started...\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/ponyc/issues/comments/178327226","html_url":"https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/511#issuecomment-178327226","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ponylang/ponyc/issues/511","id":178327226,"user":{"login":"SeanTAllen","id":193596,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/193596?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen","html_url":"https://github.com/SeanTAllen","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/SeanTAllen/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-02-02T02:46:28Z","updated_at":"2016-02-02T02:46:28Z","body":"@darach \r\n\r\nre: `Idiomatic, guided examples of small but complete pony programs ( not part of tutorial )`\r\n\r\n* do you think guide tours of the contents of examples would be good?\r\n* does the [Deconstructing a Pony echo server](http://www.monkeysnatchbanana.com/2015/12/13/deconstructing-a-pony-echo-server/) I wrote fall under our idea of \"guided example\" or are you thinking of something else?\r\n\r\nre: `API Documentation online and linked via the tutorial and ponylang.org site`\r\n\r\nCan you clarify what you mean by `linked via the tutorial`?\r\n\r\n\r\n"}}