There are no locks. There is no blocking wait, the IO lib is nonblocking through...

		rurban 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Safety in an unsafe world There are no locks. There is no blocking wait, the IO lib is nonblocking throughout. Actors cannot wait. Messages are guaranteed to be processed ordered sequentially. https://tutorial.ponylang.io/index.html#whats-pony-anyway

There are while loops, though, so actors can still livelock.