What a great week in Pony! So much fun! Let’s have two happy time theme songs for this week! We’ve got a packed ponyc release, BSDs are back in CI, json-ng landed in the standard library, and there’s a brand new library for building LiveView UIs. This bunch is ripe for the picking.
This week’s theme song is “Tennessee Quick Cash” by the incredible Charley Crockett. No secret meaning this time. I love Charley Crockett, I’m seeing him tonight, and I’m gifting you the love. A big week to go with it: a blog post about Pony’s networking future, a massive ponylang/templates release, and the first release of ponylang/courier.
This week’s theme song is Rawhide and it’s so good, we are gracing you with 3 different versions. And this week calls for multiple versions because it has been a big week:
\exhaustive\ annotation for match expressionsCrank up this week’s theme song — Horse Outside by the Rubberbandits — and settle in. Big week. We welcomed a new committer, shipped three brand-new libraries, and put out ten releases across five projects. There’s also a persistent HashMap bug fix that enabled json-ng to drop its custom null type, three new Pony patterns, and a blog post about teaching Claude to write Pony.
Crank up this week’s theme song — George Jones doing “Hey Good Lookin’” — and settle in. Read fast, though. It’s not a long song and this week’s issue is longer than most. We’ve got thirteen releases across six projects. Major new versions of ponylang/ssl, ponylang/lori, and ponylang/ponyup, plus a preview of what’s been piling up in ponylang/postgres.
Busy week on the release front. Ponyc 0.60.6 squashes several compiler bugs that were crashing instead of giving you error messages, Alpine support got bumped to 3.23, and seantallen-org/msgpack landed a big update with streaming support and compact encoding.
There’s a new Pony available. It has a number of bug fixes and ships with a vastly improved language server. We suggest you upgrade soon.
There’s a Pony release coming next weekend—get ready—there’s lots of good stuff in it.
Not a lot of visible activity this week in Pony land, but there’s a lot going on and you can expect a few things to land in the not-so-distant future.
Sorry for the long delay between issues of Last Week in Pony. Life got in the way. I was down with the flu for several weeks. Then I fell out of rhythm and forgot a couple times that I write this thing up on Sundays.