Last Week in Pony - February 2, 2020
Our community Zulip has over 500 members! Ryan A. Hagenson introduces pony-bio, a bioinformatics library for the Pony ecosystem.
Our community Zulip has over 500 members! Ryan A. Hagenson introduces pony-bio, a bioinformatics library for the Pony ecosystem.
Sean T. Allen’s recent PWL on Deny Capabilities for Safe, Fast Actors Talk is available. Microsoft’s Project Verona is now open source.
We’ve had a boatload of exciting new RFC proposals in the past few weeks! Check them out at https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pulls.
Ponyup now supports the macOS builds of ponyc! We highly recommend that you update ponyup to the latest version, even if you are a Linux user.
The Pony compiler now has support for LLVM 9! Nightly builds of ponyc, corral, and ponyup are also available for macOS now.
We have quite a lot of exciting announcements this week. Releases for Ponyup and Corral are hot off the presses, we have a new committer, and more!
Another week in the world of Pony has passed. What’s going on? Well quite a bit, a lot of which will be surfacing over the next couple months so keep your eyes peeled on Last Week in Pony. We have a lot of exciting stuff coming.
In the meantime, let’s get to that news…
After some scheduling conflicts with the weekly Sync meeting, we decided to reschedule for Tuesdays at 2pm EST starting this week.
The Pony Playground is back (mostly) after being down for a few weeks. Groxio has started a new course on Pony with a free intro video available on YouTube.
Last week has seen a ton of improvements to our CI and release automation thanks to Sean T. Allen. We have also been working toward making ponyup the default for installing and managing the Pony compiler and tools. Three new members have been inducted into the Pony core team.