Work this week focused on embedding LLVM’s lld linker into the Pony compiler to remove the C toolchain dependency. We’re starting with Linux and will move to other OSes later. MacOS CI is blocked by a GitHub Actions “hashFiles” issue, so there are no macOS nightly builds. Office Hours met twice—on November 10 and 17—to cover planning and progress for the embedded lld work.
I asked “AI” to write a witty introduction for this week’s Last Week in Pony, and here’s what it came up with:
Welcome to another thrilling edition of Last Week in Pony! This week, we’re talking about embedded link development, future clang integration, and some enlightening Office Hours discussions. I’d say we’re really putting the “link” in “Pony links” with our LLD embedding work! Plus, there’s a brief hiatus coming up next week—even Ponies need vacation time.
MacOS on Intel support has been given a reprieve. This and other Hank Williams inspired news in this week’s edition of Last Week in Pony.
We completed our container infrastructure migration with the release of Pony 0.60.3. Support for MacOS on Intel and Fedora 41 is ending soon.
We had 3 Pony releases this week and a ton of changes to our container infrastructure as we continue migrating to multi-architecture images and clearer tagging. We’ve also added new standard builder images for Linux that should cover most use cases. Read on for the details.
We have exciting news this week! Pony 0.60.0 is scheduled for release soon, followed by several additional releases to implement related changes. These updates include significant changes to our container images (shifting to musl-based only), improved multi-architecture support for both AMD64 and ARM64, and the first official support for building Pony on ARM64 Windows machines. We’re also renaming our “latest” image tag to the more accurate “nightly” designation. Read on for more details about these upcoming changes.
Hello! It’s been a minute since our last Last Week in Pony. I was traveling and then got sick with “sure feels like Covid”. So, here we are. 3 weeks of updates. Let’s dig in.
Hello, Pony enthusiasts! Time for another weekly update on the Pony programming language. Things have been quiet this week – maybe everyone’s taking a break before diving into fall projects, or working on things behind the scenes. Either way, let’s keep the tradition going. Even quiet weeks have their place in our community. So grab your favorite drink and let’s see what’s been happening.
After an unexpected week off, we’re back with a double issue of Last Week in Pony. I had Covid that lasted through last Sunday and didn’t feel like writing.
After a week off, we’re back with a double issue of Last Week in Pony! This week, we have updates on the latest Pony development sync and Red’s talk.