Last Week in Pony - May 21, 2017

Sunday, May 21, 2017 | Posted in Last Week in Pony

Last Week In Pony is a weekly blog post to catch you up on the latest news for the Pony programming language. To learn more about Pony check out our website, our Twitter account @ponylang, or our Zulip community.

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A Call for Help!

• Anyone interested in porting Pony to work on 64-bit ARM? If yes, we could use a maintainer, chime in on issue #1719.

Items of note

• A new version of Ponylang-mode, the Emacs mode for Pony, was released. Release notes are available.
• Audio from the May 10, 2017, Pony Development Sync is available for your listening pleasure. Lots of type system and some wonderful discussion of the fun that is computers and dates.
• RFC:34 Bare methods and lambdas has been merged to main. RFC 34 is going to be a great boon to interfacing with some libraries via C-FFI that wasn’t previously possible. Want to work with a C library that uses function pointers as callbacks? Awesome, because now we have you covered.

RFCs

Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the RFC repo. Contributors welcome!

New RFCs

• String concatenation syntax: A new syntax for concatenating Strings (and Stringables) that generates efficient code for creating the final String.

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AUTHOR

Sean T. Allen

Sean is a member of the Pony core team. His turn-ons include programming languages, distributed computing, Hiwatt amplifiers, and Fender Telecasters. His turn-offs include mayonnaise, stirring yogurt, and sloppy code. He is one of the authors of Storm Applied, and works at Microsoft Research.