Last Week in Pony - August 6, 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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0.17.0 and 0.16.1 Released!¶
Last Sunday, we released Pony 0.16.1. It featured a couple of high-priority bug fixes. As such we recommend upgrading as soon as possible. However, 0.16.0 featured a large breaking change so we suggest you check out the release notes for both before proceeding.
Yesterday, we released Pony 0.17.0. It is highlighted by support for GCC 7 on Linux. Prior to this release, you weren’t able to build Pony with GCC 7 due to a GCC bug. That isn’t all you get with this release though. There’s some nice additional features in there. Check it out!
Items of note¶
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RFC #35: “More Promise Methods” has been implemented and is on main. It made Kevin Hoffman really happy. Hopefully he isn’t the only one. Thank you Theo Butler for the implementation.
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RFC #44: “Match Iterator” has been implemented and is on main. Thanks to Kevin Hoffman for the implementation.
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RFC #46: “More Random Methods” was both approved and implemented this quick. Joe Eli McIlvain is to thank for the quick turn around on that one.
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Audio from the August 2nd, 2017 Pony development sync is now available.
News and Blog Posts¶
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Chris Double has written some excellent Pony blog posts. His new one included: “Reference Capabilities, Consume and Recover in Pony”. If you have trouble figuring out when and how to use
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Video of Sophia Drossopoulou’s PLISS‘17 talk “Pony: Actors and Objects” is now available. It’s split into two parts. Part 1. Part 2.
RFCs¶
Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the RFC repo. Contributors welcome!