Last Week in Pony - June 21, 2020
We have new releases for ponyup, ponylang-mode, and release-notes-bot-action.
We have new releases for ponyup, ponylang-mode, and release-notes-bot-action.
We have some new RFCs and more updates to the Emacs ponylang-mode. This week’s sync meeting includes a discussion about build systems and package management.
This weeks sync meeting includes discussions about type system soundness and dependency management.
A bunch of updates to ponylang-mode. The Pony Zulip now has a ‘jobs’ stream for posting Pony-related job opportunities. The ‘Add maybe to itertools’ RFC will be voted on in the next sync meeting.
Damon Kwok has been doing a ton of awesome work on the Emacs ponylang-mode. Sean T Allen gave an informal presentation on Pony to the Houston Functional Programmers Users Group.
Pony 0.35.0 and 0.35.1 have been released! Stable, our little dependency manager that could, has been deprecated in favor of our new dependency manager, Corral.
It’s been a big week in Pony world for new ponylang projects and releases. ponyc 0.34.1 has been released for users on glibc-based Linux platforms. We’ve also opened a new GitHub repo for collecting information relevant to Pony contributors at https://github.com/ponylang/contributors.
Nightly builds of ponyc for FreeBSD 12.1 are available. pony-semver has moved into the ponylang organization. The past sync meeting discussed syntax changes for the call site of behaviours.
We return after a long absence with some very sad news.