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Pony - Programming language

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Pony is an open source programming language created in 2012.

Source code:
git clone https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc
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:horse: Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language


Example from the web:
actor Main new create(env: Env) => env.out.print("Hello, world!")
Example from Compiler Explorer:
actor Main var _env: Env new create(env: Env) => _env = env square(3) fun square(num: I32): I32 => num * num
Example from hello-world:
actor Main new create(env: Env) => env.out.print("Hello World")
Example from Linguist:
actor Main new create(env: Env) => env.out.print("Hello, world.")

Language features

Feature Supported Token Example
Comments ✓
MultiLine Comments ✓
Line Comments ✓
Integers ✓
Floats ✓
Hexadecimals ✓
Strings ✓ "
"Hello world"
Print() Debugging ✓ env.out.print

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