Last Week in Pony - February 20, 2022

We have 1 new RFC and 3 that are ready for vote. Corral 0.5.6 has been released.

Items of note

• Audio from the February 15^th, 2022 Pony development sync is now available: https://vimeo.com/916937017. We covered a lot of ground including ponyc bugs #3737, #2150, and #3997. If you listen along you might also learn a bit about how the Pony compiler handles field initialization checks for try/else, if/else, and other control structures.

Issue of the Week

This week’s issue is adding a remove command to ponyup. There is little prerequisite knowledge required to take this on, though experience using ponyup would definitely be beneficial. Feel free to ask any questions related to this in the tooling stream in Zulip.

Releases

• ponylang/corral 0.5.6

RFCs

Ready For Vote

• Add ponycheck to the standard library

• Remove logger package from standard library

• Change the standard library pattern for object capabilities

New RFCs

• Add ansi escape codes

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