Pony Lang Explorations - Absolute Beginner’s Guide

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

Initially I was completely confused by Pony. The actor model, behaviors, functions, permissions, references - all made it crazy confusing for me to know where to start. This is my exploration as I clarify my understanding to be more comfortable with Pony Lang.

https://www.ponylang.io/

1. Installation

On MacOS - use:

$ brew install ponyc

For all other systems see: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/master/README.md#installation

2. Pony CLI

3. Quick Start

4. Resources

Actor Model Intro: https://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/
Pony Quick Start (Peter Hellberg): https://c7.se/from-go-to-pony/
Everybody gets a Pony: https://youtu.be/e0197aoljGQ (A Beginner Friendly Intro by Kristoffer Grönlund) - basis for much of this content (with his permission)
List of Helpful Videos: https://codesync.global/media/top-10-pony-lang-talks/
https://github.com/krig/tinyhorse
Beginner Help: https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/login/
FAQ: https://www.ponylang.io/faq/
Exercism: https://exercism.io/my/tracks/pony

5. Generating these Docs

$ asciidoctor -D docs/pony code/pony/adoc/*

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