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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”

Operating Systems

Section titled “Operating Systems”
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • Windows 11

CPUs

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

Best effort platforms

Section titled “Best effort platforms”

Best-effort platforms are operating systems where Pony should work, but with low confidence. We don’t have automated testing or continuous integration for these platforms to ensure they remain functional. We won’t intentionally break a best-effort platform. However, we make no effort to maintain compatibility with them. When building ponyc from source on a best-effort platform, you may encounter failures. We welcome thoughtful pull requests to restore Pony compatibility with the platform.

  • DragonFlyBSD (x86 only)
  • FreeBSD (x86 only)
  • OpenBSD (x86 only)
  • Windows 10 (x86 only)

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.