Pony

Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.

Status

Pony is still pre-1.0 and as such, semi-regularly introduces breaking changes. These changes are usually fairly easy to adapt to. Applications written in Pony are currently used in production environments.

Supported platforms

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OS \ CPU	amd64	arm64	arm32	riscv64
Linux	✅ Released	✅ Released	🧪 Tested	🧪 Tested
macOS	✅ Released	✅ Released	—	—
Windows	✅ Released	✅ Released	—	—
FreeBSD	🧪 Tested	✗ Unsupported	—	—
OpenBSD	🧪 Tested	✗ Unsupported	—	—
DragonFly BSD	🧪 Tested	—	—	—

• ✅ Released — official prebuilt binaries; also tested in CI
• 🧪 Tested — tested in CI; build from source (no prebuilt binary)
• ✗ Unsupported — no support
• — Not applicable — combination doesn't exist

More Information

• Installation
• Building from source
• Docker images
• Editor support

Resources

• Learn more about Pony
• Start learning Pony
  • Getting help
• Try Pony online
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Community

Contributing

We welcome contributions to Pony. Please read through CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to get started.

License

Pony is distributed under the terms of the 2-Clause BSD License. See LICENSE for details.