Last Week in Pony - January 28, 2018

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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Items of note

• James Bracey wrote to the user list to let us all know about a Pony Cassandra client he started. It’s in early stages and it doesn’t sound like he’s planning on doing more work at this time, but he wanted to let folks know. Full mailing list message can be viewed at: https://pony.groups.io/g/user/message/1577

Talks

• Kristoffer Grönlund’s talk Everyone gets a Pony! at Linux Conf Australia on January 24, 2018 has been recorded and posted to Youtube. It is also listed on Planet Pony.

Pony Development Sync

Another Sync call took place on Wednesday January 24, 2018. Check out the recorded audio.

The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 03:30 PM (GMT-05:00) America/New York via zoom. We’d love to have you there.

RFCs

Pending

• Improved Ponybench

• Remove HTTP server from the standard library.

• Rename Logger in net/http to HTTPLogger in order to avoid name clashes in the standard library.

Final Comment Period

• Remove existing case functions implementation from Pony

Active (Waiting for Implementation)

• Class and Actor field Docstrings

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