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authors:
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description: "Last week's Pony news."
categories:
  - "Last Week in Pony"
title: "Last Week in Pony - January 28, 2018"
date: 2018-01-28T20:00:00+01:00
---
_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

- James Bracey wrote to the user list to let us all know about a [Pony Cassandra client](https://github.com/waratuman/pony-cql) he started. It's in early stages and it doesn't sound like he's planning on doing more work at this time, but he wanted to let folks know. Full mailing list message can be viewed at: [https://pony.groups.io/g/user/message/1577](https://pony.groups.io/g/user/message/1577)

## Talks

- Kristoffer Grönlund's talk [Everyone gets a Pony!](https://linux.conf.au/) at Linux Conf Australia on January 24, 2018 has been recorded and [posted to Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0197aoljGQ). It is also listed on [Planet Pony](https://www.ponylang.io/community/planet-pony/).

## Pony Development Sync

Another Sync call took place on Wednesday January 24, 2018. Check out the [recorded audio](https://vimeo.com/915358031).

The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 03:30 PM (GMT-05:00) America/New York via zoom. We'd love to have you there.

## RFCs

### Pending

- [Improved Ponybench](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/119)

- [Remove HTTP server from the standard library](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/117).

- [Rename Logger in net/http to HTTPLogger](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/116) in order to avoid name clashes in the standard library.

### Final Comment Period

- [Remove existing case functions implementation from Pony](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/118)

### Active (Waiting for Implementation)

- [Class and Actor field Docstrings](https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs/pull/115)

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