Last Week in Pony - February 11, 2018

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

• Pony-MQTT, a notify-based implementation of an MQTT client has been announced on reddit.

Pony Development Sync

The Pony developers met on their weekly sync call on Wednesday February 7, 2018. Check out the recorded audio.

The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 03:30 PM (GMT-05:00) America/New York via zoom. We’d love to have you there.

RFCs

Pending

• Remove HTTP server from the standard library.

• Rename Logger in net/http to HTTPLogger in order to avoid name clashes in the standard library.

Active (Waiting for Implementation)

• Improved Ponybench

• Class and Actor field Docstrings is implemented by PR 2543 and is impatiently waiting to be reviewed.

Implemented

• Remove existing case functions implementation from Pony has been implemented by Ponyc PR #2542 and Tutorial PR #271 and will go out with the next Pony release.

Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the RFC repo. Contributors welcome!