Last Week in Pony - September 17, 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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Pony 0.19.1 Released

Last Thursday, Pony 0.19.1 was released. It’s a non-breaking change and includes a hot new feature so we think you should update soon. The highlight of 0.19.1 is definitely the implementation of RFC #45: “Lambda and Array Inference”. It’s an incredibly useful feature that greatly improves Pony’s programmer ergonomics. Check out the blog post announcing the release for full details.

Items of note

News and Blog Posts

A Framework for Gradual Memory Management proposes a way for a language’s compiler to allow a single program to use multiple memory management strategies optimized for performance, with compile-time safety guarantees. The Pony community might be interested because it adopts Pony’s reference capabilities as part of its proposed mechanisms.

Jorge Díaz wrote a blog post about his first experience with Pony- Go through this concurrent world in the company of a Pony.

RFCs

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

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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