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authors:
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description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - October 29, 2017"
date: 2017-10-29T10:53:32+02:00
---
_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

- Our very own Sean T. Allen from Wallaroo Labs published a blog post on why they chose Pony for building Wallaroo: **edit**: the link has gone invalid and has been removed. If you don't know if you should consider Pony, this is a great read which will definitely give you more confidence for your decision, whatever it may be. Also make sure to follow the very decent discussions on [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78v16n/why_we_used_pony_to_write_wallaroo/) and [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558051). And don't forget to share and upvote!

- There has been a talk about *ORCA*, the Pony Garbage Collector at SPLASH 2017 in Vancouver: [ORCA: GC and Type System Co-Design for Actor Languages](https://2017.splashcon.org/event/splash-2017-oopsla-orca-leveraging-types-and-messaging-for-fully-concurrent-gc). Here is [the original paper](https://ponylang.io/media/papers/orca_gc_and_type_system_co-design_for_actor_languages.pdf) this talk is based upon.

## Items of note

- Pony now has an [RFC](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455)-compliant WebSocket server: [https://github.com/oraoto/pony-websocket](https://github.com/oraoto/pony-websocket) !

- The Pony development sync audio from last week is available right [here](https://vimeo.com/915352960), right now! Amongst other stuff it features Sylvan sharing pretty exciting ideas about the future of the Pony GC and thus the type system itself.

- George Steed's Thesis "A Principled Design of Capabilities in Pony" is now available in the Papers section of the Pony website as well: [https://www.ponylang.io/community/#papers](https://www.ponylang.io/community/#papers). Last year George did a Virtual Users' Group presentation on his thesis as well: [https://vimeo.com/178522513](https://vimeo.com/178522513)

## 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!
