Last Week in Pony - June 3, 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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Pony 0.22.3 - Release Notes

Once the release train is a-rollin’, ain’t nobody gonna stop it!

This time we have two small bug fixes and a lot of improvement on our new release process. Thus upgrading is recommended.

Thanks Dipin Hora, for taking care of this!

News and Blog Posts

• Introduction to the Pony programming language by Sean T. Allen

Items of Note

• GitHub user ergl updated the offline stdlib viewer, pony-docset, to support Pony 0.22 as well as the new documentation theme.
• Matthias Wahl (That’s me!!!) joined the Pony Core Team. Yay!
• We just wanted to let you know about the latest pony-stable release 0.1.3 (Release Notes). It does not contain any user-facing changes but validates our new release process is working nicely. Upgrading is not necessary.

RFCs

Under Discussion

• Add operators for partial integer arithmetic

• Formal Viewpoint Adaptation

• Use Site Variance and Implicit Interfaces for Generic Types.

• Trust boundary specification

Final Comment Period

• Remove HTTP libraries from the standard library

• Change buffered.Reader.line to return String iso^

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