Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model programming language created by Sylvan Clebsch and first released in 2015, designed to guarantee both high performance and data-race-free, deadlock-free concurrent programming through a capabilities-based type system enforced entirely at compile time. Pony programs are organized as independent actors that communicate only through asynchronous messages, and its type system statically proves the absence of data races without requiring locks, making Pony notable among concurrent languages for eliminating an entire class of concurrency bugs by construction rather than through runtime checks.
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Classification
Typing Discipline Typing Discipline First Released SignificanceReference capabilities allow even mutable data to be safely passed by reference between actors. 1 Connections
Follows Typing Discipline
Entity-backed identity for the typing discipline value this language already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a concept entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the typing discipline value this language already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a concept entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
In Field
Source Pony (programming language) - Wikipedia
Influenced By
Pony's actor-model concurrency draws on Erlang's actor model.
Licensed Under
Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.
Sources
1. Pony (programming language) - Wikipedia
Lead, second sentence
Pony's reference capabilities allow even mutable data to be safely passed by reference between actors.
Infobox field released
released = 28 April 2015
Infobox typing field
typing = strong, static, inferred, nominal, structural
In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
Pony (also known as ponylang) is a object-oriented, actor model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language.
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- Wikidata Q51160093 P275 (license)
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