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authors:
  - jdhorwitz
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - August 5, 2018"
date: 2018-08-05T19:14:57-04:00
---

_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

- Pony 0.24.4 has been released. Upgrading is recommended: [Pony 0.24.4 Released](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/releases/tag/0.24.4)

## Last Week's Playground

- [Isolates and Tuples](https://playground.ponylang.io/?gist=16c4ae4851efea2d7903c4f5173fd12a)

> Working with isolates and tuples can be challenging given the extreme restriction of an `iso` capability. This playground covers putting isolates into a tuple, as well as extracting them back out.

## News and Blog Posts

- Do you use the Sublime Text Pony module? You might want to update it. Stefan Achatz has added a couple fixes in the last few weeks. Nothing huge, but... it is an update. Didn't realize there was Sublime Text support? There is... feel free to contribute more fixes yourself at [Sublime Pony](https://github.com/ponylang/sublime-pony)

- The Ponylang Emacs mode got an update recently thanks to [spreadLink](https://github.com/spreadlink). By the time you read this, version 0.0.11 of ponylang-mode should have been released and be available via MELPA.
