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authors:
  - seantallen
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - July 23, 2017"
date: 2017-07-23T00:00:01-04:00
---
_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

- Alpine Linux support [has landed on main](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/pull/1844) and will be released in Pony 0.16.0. Thanks to Dipin Hora for doing the initial work.
- LLVM 4.0 support is [on the way](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/pull/2061). Gordon Tisher picked this up and ran with it when no one else had time. When this gets merged, everyone should drop Gordon a note of thanks. I'll do mine now: Thanks Gordon! You rock!
- Supporting a ton of different LLVM versions is difficult for a small team. There's a proposition to remove LLVM 3.7 support once 4.0 support lands. If this would ruin your day, [please let us know](https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/2063).
- Audio from the [July 19, 2017 Pony development sync](https://vimeo.com/915145456) is available for your listening pleasure.

## News and Blog Posts

- While not specifically "Pony", I thought this would be of interest to the Pony community. Back at QCon London this spring, Martin Thompson moderated an awesome panel [What's Next for Our Programming Languages?](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/panel-languages-future?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=calendar). The panel includes amongst others, our very own Sylvan as well Joe Duffy and Brian Goetz. If you listen to the development sync calls, you'll hear Joe's name come up a lot. It's a great panel and worth your time if you are interested in programming languages.
- A few weeks back, I gave a talk on Pony at QCon New York. The video will be released sometime later this summer. In the meantime, if you are interested in seeing it, I have a few invites left that get you access to the "pre-release" video. Want an invite? Drop me a line with the email address to invite. In the meantime, you can [enjoy the slides](https://speakerdeck.com/seantallen/pony-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-embrace-an-unproven-technology).

## 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

- [#write gencap](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/blob/main/text/0043-gencap-write.md)

### Final Comment Period

- [Lamda and Array inference](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/96)
- [Match Iterator](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/95)

### New RFCs

- [More `Random` methods](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/97)
