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.

Installation

See INSTALL.md.

Building from source

See BUILD.md.

Docker images

See INSTALL_DOCKER.md

Resources

• Learn more about Pony
• Start learning Pony
• Beginner Help
• Try Pony online
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Community

Supported platforms

Operating Systems

• FreeBSD
• Linux
• macOS
• Windows 10

CPUs

• Full support for 64-bit platforms
  • x86 and ARM CPUs only
• Partial support for 32-bit platforms
  • The arm and armhf architectures are tested via CI (Continuous Integration testing)

Editor support

• Sublime Text: Pony Language
• Atom: language-pony
• Visual Studio: VS-pony
• Visual Studio Code: vscode-pony
• Vim:
  • vim-pony
  • pony.vim
  • currycomb: Syntastic support
  • SpaceVim, available as layer for Vim and Neovim. Just follow installation instructions then load lang#pony layer inside configuration file ($HOME/.SpaceVim.d/init.toml)
• Emacs:
  • ponylang-mode
  • flycheck-pony
  • pony-snippets
• BBEdit: bbedit-pony
• Micro: micro-pony-plugin
• Nano: pony.nanorc file
• Kate: update syntax definition file: Settings -> Configure Kate -> Open/Save -> Modes & Filetypes -> Download Highlighting Files
• CudaText: lexer in Addon Manager

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.md for details.