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authors:
  - seantallen
  - ryan
description: "Office Hours and the Development Sync are back this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - January 7, 2024"
date: 2024-01-07T07:00:06-04:00
---

Office Hours and the Development Sync are back this week.

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## Items of Note

## Meetings reminder

We'll be starting up Office Hours and the Development Sync again this week.

## Community Resource Highlight

We like to take a moment in each Last Week in Pony to highlight a community resource. There are many community resources that can go unappreciated until _just the right time_ when someone hops into the Ponylang Zulip asking a question or facing a problem we have all had at one time or another. Well here in Last Week in Pony, we make it **just the right time** to highlight one of our excellent community resources.

When working on a heavily recursive problem it is best to write tail-recursive functions. Writing such a function requires the last instruction of the function to be a call to the same function, such as in the [Recursion](https://tutorial.ponylang.io/gotchas/recursion) page of the Tutorial. Note that in the non-recursive version of the function the last instruction will be the multiplication, while in the recursive version it will be the function again.

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_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](https://ponylang.io), our Twitter account [@ponylang](https://twitter.com/ponylang), or our [Zulip community](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com).

Got something you think should be featured? There's a GitHub issue for that! Add a comment to the [open "Last Week in Pony" issue](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang.github.io/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Alast-week-in-pony).

Interested in making a change, or keeping up with changes to Pony? Check out the [RFC repo](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs). Contributors welcome!
