Papers

If reading academic papers is your thing, you’re in luck. There are a number of papers that have been written about Pony. We host a number of them on this website. If you’re interested in learning more about “deep Pony”, these papers are a great place to start:

• Deny Capabilities for Safe, Fast Actors
• Ownership and Reference Counting based Garbage Collection in the Actor World
• Fully Concurrent Garbage Collection of Actors on Many-Core Machines
• A String of Ponies: Transparent Distributed Programming with Actors
• A Principled Design of Capabilities in Pony
• ORCA: GC and Type System Co-Design for Actor Languages
• Formalizing Generics for Pony