---
draft: false
authors:
  - mwahl
description: "Last week's Pony news, reported this week."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - April 08, 2018"
date: 2018-04-08T21:00:00+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

* There is a brand new blog post from the folks at WallarooLabs about how their Python API works with Pony: **Edit**: The link has since gone invalid so we've removed.

* A new package for *Linear Algebra in Pony* by GitHub user @dougmacdoug has been released: [linal](https://github.com/dougmacdoug/ponylang-linal) ([The original Announcement](https://pony.groups.io/g/user/topic/linal_linear_algebra/16887194?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,16887194)).
* Due to [GitHub removing anonymous gist creation](https://blog.github.com/2018-02-18-deprecation-notice-removing-anonymous-gist-creation/) it was not possible to create gists on the [Pony Playground](https://playground.ponylang.io/) for some days. But Paul stepped in and fixed that. Thank you!

## Last Week's Playground

This Playground link showcases a tool to execute your pony source code directly on linux systems using binfmt_misc or a shebang:

[Last Weeks Playground - April 08, 2018](https://playground.ponylang.io/?gist=4e93446ff4dc4283e98b0a08db1a78ae)

In case you want to submit one (which I highly recommend), just add it as a comment to the current [Last Week in Pony Issue](https://github.com/ponylang/ponylang.github.io/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Alast-week-in-pony) and let people vote with `+1` reactions. The one with the most votes is presented (Or i just present them all. Depends on my Sunday evening mood).

## Pony Development Sync

The Pony developers met on their weekly sync call on Wednesday April 04, 2018. Check out the [recorded audio](https://vimeo.com/915360531).

The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 03:30 PM (GMT-04:00) America/New York via zoom. We'd love to have you there.

## RFCs

### Under active discussion

* [Structural Subtyping Opt-Out](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/121)

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