Last Week in Pony - April 3, 2017
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¶
Releases galore!¶
There were several “point” releases last week. For a list of full releases see the releases page. If you are running on Windows, it is recommended that you update to 0.12.3 as soon as possible. For those on developing on other platforms, upgrading to at least 0.12.1 as soon as possible is recommended.
Version 0.12.3 : Update recommended for Windows users.
Version 0.12.2 : Update recommended for Windows users.
Version 0.12.1 : Update recommended all users.
Version 0.12.0 : Update recommended for all users.
News and Blog Posts¶
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New Website Layout ponylang.io got an update, as well as an official place for the Pony blog
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Pony Play Pen! Pony now has a live, browser-accessible sandbox.
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Developer Sync Meeting Audio from the March 29th Pony developer sync meeting.
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Acolyte A procedurally generated RPG inspired by Rogue and written in Pony.
RFCs¶
Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the RFC repo. Contributors welcome!
Approved RFCs¶
- Add a TCPConnectNotify.received times parameter
- Add RFC for exhaustive match.
- Explicit Partial Call
- Exhaustive Pattern Matching