This week’s theme song is “Tennessee Quick Cash” by the incredible Charley Crockett. No secret meaning this time. I love Charley Crockett, I’m seeing him tonight, and I’m gifting you the love. A big week to go with it: a blog post about Pony’s networking future, a massive ponylang/templates release, and the first release of ponylang/courier.
This week’s theme song is Rawhide and it’s so good, we are gracing you with 3 different versions. And this week calls for multiple versions because it has been a big week:
\exhaustive\ annotation for match expressionsCrank up this week’s theme song — Horse Outside by the Rubberbandits — and settle in. Big week. We welcomed a new committer, shipped three brand-new libraries, and put out ten releases across five projects. There’s also a persistent HashMap bug fix that enabled json-ng to drop its custom null type, three new Pony patterns, and a blog post about teaching Claude to write Pony.
Crank up this week’s theme song — George Jones doing “Hey Good Lookin’” — and settle in. Read fast, though. It’s not a long song and this week’s issue is longer than most. We’ve got thirteen releases across six projects. Major new versions of ponylang/ssl, ponylang/lori, and ponylang/ponyup, plus a preview of what’s been piling up in ponylang/postgres.
Busy week on the release front. Ponyc 0.60.6 squashes several compiler bugs that were crashing instead of giving you error messages, Alpine support got bumped to 3.23, and seantallen-org/msgpack landed a big update with streaming support and compact encoding.
There’s a new Pony available. It has a number of bug fixes and ships with a vastly improved language server. We suggest you upgrade soon.
There’s a Pony release coming next weekend—get ready—there’s lots of good stuff in it.
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.
Sorry for the long delay between issues of Last Week in Pony. Life got in the way. I was down with the flu for several weeks. Then I fell out of rhythm and forgot a couple times that I write this thing up on Sundays.
Work this week focused on embedding LLVM’s lld linker into the Pony compiler to remove the C toolchain dependency. We’re starting with Linux and will move to other OSes later. MacOS CI is blocked by a GitHub Actions “hashFiles” issue, so there are no macOS nightly builds. Office Hours met twice—on November 10 and 17—to cover planning and progress for the embedded lld work.