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authors:
  - mwahl
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - November 12, 2017"
date: 2017-11-12T17:00:00+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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## News and Blog Posts

- [Gordon](https://github.com/chalcolith) wrote a blog post about his [Configuration for Debugging the Pony Compiler in Visual Studio Code on Windows](http://balafon.net/?p=1683)!

## Talks

This week we had 2 talks about pony:

- [Joe](https://github.com/jemc) has been talking about Pony at [Øredev](http://oredev.org/2017/sessions/pony--a-language-for-provably-safe-lockless-concurrency). Don't worry if you couldn't make it to Malmö, there is a [video recording](https://vimeo.com/242214036) and these are the [slides](https://github.com/jemc/slides-pony).
- Pony has been featured in [Alex Snaps](https://twitter.com/alexsnaps)' talk [Dr Strangecode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVheDbrQBDk) at Devoxx Belgium.

## Items of note

- The [ponyc](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc) repo has now more than 1000 issues closed (i.e. [1001](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed)).
- There has been no Pony Development Sync call this week. Everybody has been a hell lot of busy with other stuff. Sorry, folks! Tune in next wednesday.

## 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!
