Pony (programming language)
| Pony | |
|---|---|
| Paradigms | Actor model, object-oriented, imperative |
| Designed by | Sylvan Clebsch |
| First appeared | 28 April 2015 |
| Stable release | 0.60.4 (Beta)
/ October 31, 2025 |
| Typing discipline | strong, static, inferred, nominal, structural |
| Implementation language | C |
| License | BSD 2-clause. |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| E | |
| Influenced | |
| Project Verona | |
Pony (also known as ponylang) is a object-oriented, actor model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language. Pony's reference capabilities allow even mutable data to be safely passed by reference between actors. Garbage collection is performed concurrently, per-actor, which eliminates the need to pause program execution or "stop the world". Sylvan Clebsch is the original creator of the language. It is now being maintained and developed by members of the Pony team. It is free and open-source software with a BSD 2-clause license.