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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 - December 23, 2018"
date: 2018-12-23T11:22:57-05:00
---
_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 for the December 18, 2018 Pony sync is [here](https://vimeo.com/915401017).

## News and Blog Posts

- Aturley did a Twitch stream where he shows how to build a Twitch IRC bot from scratch in Pony. The video is available [here](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/351396422). Check it out if you're Interested to see someone make a Twitch IRC bot in Pony, or if you just want to see Andy in a reindeer onesie followed by video of his cat.

## 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!

### Final Comment Period

- [RFC for modulo operator](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/135) is in Final Comment Period.

### New RFCs

- New [RFC for python struct-like primitive](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/137).
