Last Week in Pony - May 20, 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

• GitHub User d-led provided an example for Vaughn Vernons Domain Driven Design with Actors in Pony. This is a quite good comparison between the different actor system languages and libraries out there.
• A new version of ponycheck, the property-based testing library for Pony, has been released. Version 0.4.0 brings partial Generators and some simplification of the Generator API, for more details, see the Release Notes.

RFCs

Under Discussion

• Formal Viewpoint Adaptation

• Use Site Variance and Implicit Interfaces for Generic Types.

• Trust boundary specification

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