Last Week in Pony - February 04, 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.

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Items of note

The folks over at Wallaroo Labs have a post about why they decided to write their own Kafka client in Pony rather than simply wrapping the C library. While Wallaroo specific, the general thinking could apply to your Pony project as well: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/01/why-we-wrote-our-kafka-client-in-pony/

A new JSON parser for Pony has been announced on reddit: https://github.com/Krognol/ponyjson

PR #2439 for embedding source code listings into generated documentation has been merged to master. With this change, we now own a new theme for mkdocs, mkdocs-ponylang. We needed this to make the necessary changes for PR #2439 but we are not yet happy with its current state (visually and code-wise). We want to reach out to you folks for help on this project. In case you are interested, please drop us a line via the Zulip community. Any help is much appreciated!

Pony Development Sync

Another Sync call took place on Wednesday January 31, 2018. Check out the recorded audio.

The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 03:30 PM (GMT-05:00) America/New York via zoom. We’d love to have you there.

RFCs

Pending

Active (Waiting for Implementation)

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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