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draft: false
authors:
  - seantallen
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - April 14, 2019"
date: 2019-04-14T08:58:13-05:00
---
_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).
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## Items of note

- Audio for the April 2, 2019 Pony sync is [here](https://vimeo.com/915524634).

## Call for assistance

Matthias, a Pony core team member, writes:

> We would kindly ask everybody to help us with a particular blindspot in our existing test suites for ponyc: interacting with the process environment (reading from stdin, writing to stdout/stderr, environment variables, cli arguments, signal handling ...).
>
> We set up a github issue to track and discuss ideas: [https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/3128](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/3128)
If you would like to help, add a comment on the issue and/or join our discussion on [zulip](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/192795-contribute-to.20Pony/topic/Process.20Environment.20Tests/near/162372861).
>
> Any kind of help is very much appreciated.

## RFCs

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