Last Week in Pony - February 17, 2019
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
Audio for the February 12, 2019 Pony sync is here.
Interested in helping improve the Pony Emacs mode? There’s a few “help wanted” issues open if you want to dive in.
LLVM 7.0 support has been merged to main. Great work by Joe and Gordon. Everyone should give them a virtual hand.
Currently, LLVM 3.9.1 is still the recommended LLVM version to use with Pony. LLVM 5 and 6 both had workarounds for bugs and as such were “experimentally supported”. However, LLVM 3.9.1 is being deprecated by a lot of distributions. Joe believes he has found the source of the LLVM 5 and 6 issues (which also impact on LLVM 7) and will be testing out a fix soon.
If that fix appears to work, our plan is as follows: - Get some folks to start using LLVM 7. - If no one reports any issues with LLVM 7 after some undetermined period of time, make it the recommended default - Drop LLVM 3.9.1 support as we only support 3 major LLVM versions at a time.
If you’d be willing to give LLVM 7 a try, drop @SeanTAllen a line and he’ll let you know when we are ready for testing.
News and Blog Posts
- If watching someone learn Pony for 4 hours is your thing, we’ve got the video for you! The core team watched it and learned a lot and in turn made changes to the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuZV6pV7aJI
RFCs
Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the RFC repo. Contributors welcome!