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

News and Blog Posts

Chris Double has written some excellent Pony blogposts. His new one included: “Reference Capabilities, Consume and Recover in Pony”. If you have trouble figuring out when and how to use consume and recover , give this post a read.

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!

Approved RFCs

AUTHOR Sean T. Allen Sean is a member of the Pony core team. His turn-ons include programming languages, distributed computing, Hiwatt amplifiers, and Fender Telecasters. His turn-offs include mayonnaise, stirring yogurt, and sloppy code. He is one of the authors of Storm Applied, and VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs.

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