Last Week in Pony - January 18, 2026
Not a lot of visible activity this week in Pony land, but there’s a lot going on and you can expect a few things to land in the not-so-distant future.
Pony Language Server¶
We are close to moving the Pony Language Server out of its own repository and distributing it with ponyc. This will address a couple of technical issues that would result in a poor user experience.
Distributing with the compiler will make it easy to keep compiler and language server features in sync. It will also make sure that, when using tools like ponyup, the standard library used by the compiler and the language server is the same.
Items of Note¶
Office Hours¶
Office Hours was myself and Red. We discussed:
- Claude Code, test coverage, and mutation testing
- Vector space and hallucinations
- What is a promise?
- Constrained types in the standard library
- Antithesis and FoundationDB
- Cross-compilation and the embedded lld work
- Claude Code and Git access
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