Last Week in Pony - May 28, 2017

Sunday, May 28, 2017 | Posted in Last Week in Pony

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Items of note

The Pony standard library now includes a persistent set class. It was merged as part of the work being done on RFC 42.
Audio from the May 24, 2017, Pony development sync meeting is available. Lots of conversation during the development sync about Joe’s RFC to improve the performance characteristics of string concatention. We also had a good discussing arising from the stateful exceptions RFC.

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.