After a bit of DNS wrangling and drama, the standard library documentation is back online at its new official home: http://stdlib.ponylang.io

Several new "easy to get started with" issues have recently been opened. They are a great way to get started with contributing to Pony. Interested in taking on one? Let us know on the issue.

Andrew Turley opened a PR for RFC #21. When merged it will allow the programmer to specify custom serialization/deserialization that would be run as part of Pony's built-in serialization/deserialization process. The custom methods would run after the built-in serialization and deserialization and would allow the programmer to: specify the number of bytes to use for serialization

write bytes to the serialization buffer

read bytes from the serialization buffer