Last Week in Pony - July 9, 2017

Last Week In Pony is a weekly blog post to catch you up on the latest news for the Pony programming language. To learn more about Pony check out our website, our Twitter account @ponylang, or our Zulip community.

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0.15.0 has been released

Tons of bug fixes, lots of new features, a couple breaking changes. It’s advised you update as soon as possible. Check out the release notes for full details.

Items of note

• InfoQ did a podcast interview with Sylvan Clebsch, the designer of Pony. Check out Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s Design, Garbage Collection, and Formal Verification.

• There’s a big mean old breaking change on the horizon. It will break every Pony codebase out there. So heads up that it is coming. It will be a little painful but in the long run, its going to be a good thing. You can follow along with the issue and check out the RFC: Explicit partial calls.

• Slides from Sean T. Allen’s Polyconf talk Why Pony? are now available.

RFCs

Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the RFC repo. Contributors welcome!

New RFCs

• #write gencap: Add #write, a new gencap for use in type parameter constraints, implying the capability set: {iso, trn, ref}.