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authors:
  - mwahl
description: "Last week's Pony news."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - February 04, 2018"
date: 2018-02-04T18:00:00+01:00
---
_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

- The folks over at Wallaroo Labs have a post about why they decided to write their own [Kafka client in Pony](https://github.com/WallarooLabs/pony-kafka) rather than simply wrapping the C library. While Wallaroo specific, the general thinking could apply to your Pony project as well. **Edit**: The link has since gone invalid so we've removed.

- A new JSON parser for Pony has been announced on Reddit: [https://github.com/Krognol/ponyjson](https://github.com/Krognol/ponyjson)

- [PR #2439](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/pull/2439) for embedding source code listings into generated documentation has been merged to main. With this change, we now own a new theme for MkDocs, `MkDocs-ponylang`. We needed this to make the necessary changes for [PR #2439](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/pull/2439) but we are not yet happy with its current state (visually and code-wise). We want to reach out to you folks for help on this project. In case you are interested, please drop us a line via the [Zulip community](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/190361-main.2Eactor). Any help is much appreciated!

## Pony Development Sync

Another Sync call took place on Wednesday January 31, 2018. Check out the [recorded audio](https://vimeo.com/915358490).

The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 03:30 PM (GMT-05:00) America/New York via zoom. We'd love to have you there.

## RFCs

### Pending

- [Remove HTTP server from the standard library](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/117).

- [Rename Logger in net/http to HTTPLogger](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/116) in order to avoid name clashes in the standard library.

### Final Comment Period

- [Improved Ponybench](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/119)

- [Remove existing case functions implementation from Pony](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/118)

### Active (Waiting for Implementation)

- [Class and Actor field Docstrings](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/115)

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