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ponylang/ponyc

Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Source code at GitHub http://www.ponylang.io
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Pony

Section titled “Pony”

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

Status

Section titled “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

Section titled “Supported platforms”
OS \ CPUamd64arm64arm32riscv64
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

Section titled “More Information”
  • [Installation]!(INSTALL.md)
  • [Building from source]!(BUILD.md)
  • [Docker images]!(INSTALL_DOCKER.md)
  • [Editor support]!(EDITORS.md)

Resources

Section titled “Resources”

Contributing

Section titled “Contributing”

We welcome contributions to Pony. Please read through [CONTRIBUTING.md]!(CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on how to get started.

License

Section titled “License”

Pony is distributed under the terms of the 2-Clause BSD License. See [LICENSE]!(LICENSE) for details.