Last Week in Pony - April 17, 2017

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This issue is to track submissions for Last Week in Pony for April 17, 2017

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After a bit of DNS wrangling and drama, the standard library documentation is back online at it's new official home: http://stdlib.ponylang.org

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Audio from the April 12th Pony developer's sync is available at https://pony.groups.io/g/dev/files/Pony%20Sync/April%2012,%202017. The call was devoted mostly to addressing older issues that had started to back up. If you'd like to get involved with Pony development, feel free to stop by. We meet weekly.

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Several new "easy to get started with" issues have recently been opened. They are a great way to get started with contributing to Pony. Interested in taking on one? Let us know on the issue.

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Andrew Turley opened a PR for RFC #21. When merged it will allow the programmer to specify custom serialization/deserialization that would be run as part of Pony's built-in serialization/deserializaton process. The custom methods would run after the built-in serialization and deserialization, and would allow the programmer to:

• specify the number of bytes to use for serialization
• write bytes to the serialization buffer
• read bytes from the serialization buffer

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Wojciech Migda has opened a very exciting PR to integrate RapidCheck into the Pony code base. It's very early on but the idea of having property based testing on the C codebase that drives the Pony runtime and compiler is very exciting.

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Core teeam member Sean T. Allen announced that he'll be giving two different Pony talks in the coming months. One at PolyConf in July, the other at QConNewYork in June.

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website updated.