Last Week in Pony - October 20, 2019

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

• Audio from the October 15, 2019 Pony sync is available here.

• We now have nifty community-curated topics on GitHub, ponylang and pony-language. Thanks, @Berna-L!

• Three new patterns have been added to Pony Patterns. All three focus on ways to share mutable data between actors.

  • Copying
  • Persistent data structures
  • Isolated field

  Sean would like to thank Travis Erdman for inspiring him to write up these patterns.

RFCs

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