Note: My desire was to have an actor-model language to use in Apple's ecosystem and I found that something inside myself resonated with Pony. While I did get this working (two working macOS and iOS applications built in Pony), there would have been a lot more work required to more easily integrate with existing APIs. Instead I switched to the opposite approach and integrated the Pony runtime directly with Swift; see Flynn - actor-model programming for Swift for more details.

Rocco's Pony Fork

Welcome to my fork of Pony! Pony is pretty amazing.

My fork has several major additions you might find intersting.
Check out the Divergence documentation for full list of differences..

• Less wasted CPU
  The runtime in stock Pony has a large amount of overhead when schedulers are waiting for work, in theory trading off CPU usage for decrease in latency. This fork of Pony uses a different scheme for sleeping when no work is available, reducing the amount of CPU waste considerably. The difference can be staggering. In one practical example the old scheduling method would use 1700% CPU (17 full cores) whereas the new scheduling uses 125% CPU (1.25 cores).
• Built-in code transpiler
  Generate Pony code automatically from C headers, Json Schema, and text-based resources.
• Additional error handling
  Send an int-based error code wihen you throw an error, or get the source code location of any error you throw.
• Pony runtime analysis tools
  Writing Pony code which under performs due to not understanding the Pony runtime is shockingly easy. With the --ponyanalysis option turned on you will be told when your application crosses some of the hidden barriers (and provides mechanisms for how to avoid them)!
• Actor execution on "main thread" only
  If you need to use Pony with OpenGL or other UI frameworks which rely on code executing on the "main thread" now you can.
• Cross-compile to iOS
  Yes, you can run Pony on iOS. You're welcome.

That being said, there are reasons not to use this fork:

• Active pace of development and experimentation
  As of this writing, development is active on this fork and breaking changes can happen daily.
• Support hierarchy is Mac > Linux > Windows
  My development platform of choice is Mac OS. As such, if you are building on Linux or Windows your mileage may vary.

Building on Mac OS

To build my fork of Pony to include all features, use the following command:

make -f Makefile-ios config=release all install