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Last Week in Pony February 12, 2023

This week, we are introducing a new regular entry for Last Week in Pony: “Community Resource Highlight”. The new section is replacing our previous “Highlighted Issues” section.

Ryan Hagenson and I discussed “Highlighted Issues” and decided that given how little traction we saw from the community picking up issues to work on the time he invests in each Last Week in Pony would be better spent on other content; our first stab at that content is “Community Resource Highlight”.

We’d love to hear your feedback in the Last Week in Pony stream on the Ponylang Zulip. Do you think the “Community Resource Highlight” will bring you value? Is there something else you’d rather see? Heck, perhaps even something you want to contribute? Let us know. If you aren’t getting value from LWIP then, it’s kind of pointless for us to spend time working on it. So, let us know and in the meantime, kick back, relax, put on John Lee Hooker’s “The Real Folk Blues” and get ready for the Super Bowl later today.

Last Week in Pony - December 25, 2022

It was a week dominated by conversations about distributed cycle detection. Both the Pony development sync and Office Hours were almost entirely focused on the topic. Given the somewhat complicated nature of the topic, we expect that it will be a regular source of conversation for a while.

Last Week in Pony - December 18, 2022

The big news for this week is that we merged and release a safety fix that can have a large impact on performance for applications that send lots of messages that need to be traced by the garbage collector. We’ll be incrementally adding back in performance as we make the compiler smarter.