Pony Workshop

This is the repo for the Pony workshop. There are numbered subdirectories under steps, each of which contains a small program that demonstrates some Pony ideas.

If you are presenting this workshop, please see the README for presenters.

Preparation

Pony is a fast actor-based programming language that guarantees that programs will not have data races. This workshop will teach participants about some of Pony's core ideas and patterns by having them write a series of small programs that culminate in a simple chat server. Topics covered will include Pony's actor system, reference capabilities, and working with the compiler. Attendees should bring a laptop with the following software installed: the Pony compiler via ponyup, and a telnet client. They should also clone the workshop git repository.

Useful Materials

As you work through the parts of this workshop it may be useful to refer to the following sources of information:

• Pony cheat sheet
• Pony standard library documentation
• Pony tutorial