Last Week in Pony - April 26, 2020

Nightly builds of ponyc for FreeBSD 12.1 are available. pony-semver has moved into the ponylang organization. The past sync meeting discussed syntax changes for the call site of behaviours.

Items of note

• Audio from the April 21, 2020 Pony sync is available here. There were a few topics of discussion. The primary topic was changing the syntax at the call site for behaviours from . to ~.

• Nightly builds of ponyc are now available for download for FreeBSD 12.1. FreeBSD 12.1 nightlies are available from Cloudsmith.

• pony-semver, a project started by @btab, has become an official Ponylang organization project. pony-semver is a semantic versioning library for Pony. It is being used in the corral dependency manager project.

• Hydraconf is all online this July and they are looking for a Pony talk. Interested? Submit your talk today. The deadline to submit is May 1^st, 2020.

RFCs

New RFCs

• Move Hashable to builtin package and make it easier to make objects Hashable

• Add IP address classes to net package

• Change type of Env.root to AmbientAuth

• Add RFC for adding the maybe library to stdlib

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