Last Week in Pony¶
Last Week in Pony February 12, 2023
This week, we are introducing a new regular entry for Last Week in Pony: “Community Resource Highlight”. The new section is replacing our previous “Highlighted Issues” section.
Ryan Hagenson and I discussed “Highlighted Issues” and decided that given how little traction we saw from the community picking up issues to work on the time he invests in each Last Week in Pony would be better spent on other content; our first stab at that content is “Community Resource Highlight”.
We’d love to hear your feedback in the Last Week in Pony stream on the Ponylang Zulip. Do you think the “Community Resource Highlight” will bring you value? Is there something else you’d rather see? Heck, perhaps even something you want to contribute? Let us know. If you aren’t getting value from LWIP then, it’s kind of pointless for us to spend time working on it. So, let us know and in the meantime, kick back, relax, put on John Lee Hooker’s “The Real Folk Blues” and get ready for the Super Bowl later today.
Last Week in Pony February 5, 2023
This past week, there was no sync and no RFC activity and no big announcements. It was also a week that your author was very busy at work and so, put all that together and this week’s Last Week in Pony is a light one.
Last Week in Pony - January 29, 2023
Last week, we accepted two RFCs that will result in changes to Pony syntax and the standard library respectively.
Last Week in Pony - January 22, 2023
Not a lot of things that normally make up the content of Last Week in Pony happened this week. Both Sean and Joe were sick so there was no sync meeting which tends to have a cascading effect on other activity.
Last Week in Pony - January 15, 2023
Most of the “above ground” Pony activity this week was our usual weekly development sync meeting and our weekly office hours.
Last Week in Pony - January 8, 2023
The headline news of the week, if you are using Pony 0.52.3 to 0.52.5, you should update to 0.53.0 as soon as possible to address a runtime segfault.
Last Week in Pony - January 1, 2023
The big news is that you should update your Pony version to 0.52.5. It’s very important if you are using Pony 0.51.2 to 0.52.3 that you update as soon as possible.
Last Week in Pony - December 25, 2022
It was a week dominated by conversations about distributed cycle detection. Both the Pony development sync and Office Hours were almost entirely focused on the topic. Given the somewhat complicated nature of the topic, we expect that it will be a regular source of conversation for a while.
Last Week in Pony - December 18, 2022
The big news for this week is that we merged and release a safety fix that can have a large impact on performance for applications that send lots of messages that need to be traced by the garbage collector. We’ll be incrementally adding back in performance as we make the compiler smarter.