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authors:
  - theobutler
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - October 13, 2019"
date: 2019-10-13T11:19:34-04:00
---
_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

- Audio from the October 8, 2019 Pony sync is available [here](https://vimeo.com/915532004).

- Did you know that nightly builds of Pony for glibc and musl are available for Linux? Check out our "nightlies" repo hosted by Cloudsmith: [https://cloudsmith.io/~ponylang/repos/nightlies/packages/](https://cloudsmith.io/~ponylang/repos/nightlies/packages). If you are using a musl based Linux distro, please give them a try and report any issues you might encounter.

- On Friday, @bketelsen started learning Pony with an assist from @SeanTAllen. A [recording of the first session](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODelwNLePRA&feature=youtu.be) is available.

## 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!

### Approved RFCs

- [RFC 64](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/blob/main/text/0064-llvm-cli-opts-integration.md) "LLVM command line options integrations" has been accepted. An issue to track this work has been opened at [https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/3327](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/3327).
