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ponyc

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

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38Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

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

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year38 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-05-03 22:00:07 UTC to 2026-02-03 04:54:50 UTC.

02462015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Sorry to hear that. As far as I know the documentation should be up to date, but it's entirely possibly you've found an issue. If you like you can hit up the mailing list (https://groups.io/g/wallaroo) or the IRC channel (#ponylang on freednode, https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=wallaroo) to see if anybody can help, or if you think you've found a bug you can file an issue in github (https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues). UPDATE: I'm glad to hear you got it working!
In Why we used Pony to write Wallaroo
Pony core team member here. Given this is a link to part of the tutorial. I'll drop some additional links if you are interested in learning more: high-level overview of Pony's value proposition: https://www.ponylang.org/discover/ our current "start here" resources for learning pony: https://www.ponylang.org/learn/ collection of blog posts, videos and what not: https://www.ponylang.org/community/planet-pony/ main compiler GitHub repo: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc user mailing list you can sign up for to get more info: https://pony.groups.io/g/user #ponylang on freenode for IRC (generally very quiet on weekends)
In Pony: Combining safe memory sharing with Erlang-like actors
Sylvan (referenced as main guru in the link) is still an active member of the Pony community and he's contributing on a regular basis. His most recent commit that was merged to master was yesterday: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/commit/eaf1dcd525c691feae1... The Pony development community is still relatively small but we make good regular progress. We all wish the community was bigger and we were progressing more quickly but that is always going to be the case. We have a regular weekly development Zoom call that is open to the public. Feel free to join. Info is available in the Pony development groups.io group: https://pony.groups.io/g/dev/calendar. If you join the development list, you'll also get access to the recordings of the sync meeting going back close to a year. There's a wealth of info there for anyone cares to dig in. Probab
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In Pony language 0.11.0 released

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