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

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What it is

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

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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, 2:59:58 PM 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.

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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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espeed·Oct 30, 2018
Sylvan Clebsch's [1] answer to this problem is designed into Pony [2], a high-performance lock free and data-race free actor-model language and runtime [3] based on a novel deny-capabilities model... Deny capabilities for safe, fast actors [pdf]: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~scd/fast-cheap-AGERE.pdf Sylvan has since joined MSR Cambridge and is working on the distributed runtime. He's giving a talk at QCon London in March, and there are several talks on YouTube where he discusses the ideas he combined into Pony's design [4]. [1] https://github.com/sylvanc [2] https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc [3] https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony [4] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ponylang+sylvan
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espeed·Oct 14, 2018
> Everything is a device! There Are No Things. [0] ... only actions and properties. Everything is an actor [1]. In his Turing lecture, Robin Milner wrote [2]: Now, the pure lambda-calculus is built with just two kinds of thing: terms and variables. Can we achieve the same economy for a process calculus? Carl Hewitt, with his Actors model, responded to this challenge long ago; he declared that a value, an operator on values, and a process should all be the same kind of thing: an Actor. This goal impressed me, because it implies the homogeneity and completeness of expression ... But it was long before I could see how to attain the goal in terms of an algebraic calculus... So, in the spirit of Hewitt, our first step is to demand that all things denoted by terms or accessed by names--values, registers,
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operators, processes, objects--are all of the same kind of thing; they should all be processes. And now today Hewitt's elusive true mythical Actor model may have finally been realized and embodied in a language called Pony [3]. [0] https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11514 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Fundamental_concep... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Theory [3] https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc
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