Pony

June 15, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

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

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

OS \ CPUamd64arm64arm32riscv64
Linuxโœ… Releasedโœ… Released๐Ÿงช Tested๐Ÿงช Tested
macOSโœ… Releasedโœ… Releasedโ€”โ€”
Windowsโœ… Releasedโœ… Releasedโ€”โ€”
FreeBSD๐Ÿงช Testedโœ— Unsupportedโ€”โ€”
OpenBSD๐Ÿงช Testedโœ— Unsupportedโ€”โ€”
DragonFly BSD๐Ÿงช Testedโ€”โ€”โ€”
  • โœ… Released โ€” official prebuilt binaries; also tested in CI
  • ๐Ÿงช Tested โ€” tested in CI; build from source (no prebuilt binary)
  • โœ— Unsupported โ€” no support
  • โ€” Not applicable โ€” combination doesn't exist

More Information

Resources

Contributing

We welcome contributions to Pony. Please read through CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to get started.

License

Pony is distributed under the terms of the 2-Clause BSD License. See LICENSE for details.