Last Week in Pony - March 25, 2018

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.

Got something you think should be featured? There’s a GitHub issue for that! Add a comment to the open “Last Week in Pony” issue.

News And Blog Posts

Paul did a great first blog post about Pony’s reference capability system called How To Train Your Pony: https://paul.lietar.net/2018/03/how-to-train-your-pony-introduction/. And it is just the start to an even greater series of posts!

Last Week’s Playground

This week we got a great contribution by github user EpicEric showing us how Lambdas work in Pony (and it also has a reverse polish notation calculator !!1!11):

Last Weeks Playground - March 25, 2018

In case you want to submit one (which I highly recommend), just add it as a comment to the current Last Week in Pony Issue and let people vote with +1 reactions. The one with the most votes is presented (Or i just present them all. Depends on my Sunday evening mood).

Pony Development Sync

The Pony developers met on their weekly sync call on Wednesday March 21, 2018. Check out the recorded audio.

The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 03:30 PM (GMT-04:00) America/New York via zoom. We’d love to have you there.

RFCs

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

AUTHOR Matthias Wahl Matthias is a mediocre programmer who is obsessed with lightweight concurrency primitives and property based testing. Secret Superpowers include: Confusing people on Zulip.

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