Last Week in Pony - March 18, 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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Talks

Scott Lystig Fritchie gave his talk Wide World of Actors: comparing the Pony language to Erlang at CodeBeam SF 2018. The talk has already been published on youtube. It is also already listed on Planet Pony.

Grigorij Eleskin gave his talk The pros and cons of Go in comparison with Pony language at GopherCon Russia 2018 in Moscow.

Last Week’s Playground

This week I am going to present you the with expression in Pony. The with expression???, you ask? Yes, this undocumented gem that definitely needs more coverage in the tutorial.

Here is the playground link: http://playground.ponylang.io/?gist=c8d70a175b7fde58d42f021e88595a89

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).

RFCs

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

Approved RFCs

Compile time expressions

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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