Last Week in Pony - January 12, 2024

[SeanTAllen]

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[redvers]

Pony has a simple http framework jennet which extends the functionality of Pony's http_server to add lightweight request matching, routing, and parameter parsing. Examples of this type of type of router (or multiplexer) model in other languages include Elixir's phoenix framework, or Go's httprouter.

This week we bumped all the dependencies to the latest versions, including linking to OpenSSL 3.0.x.

There is one breaking change that was introduced by a breaking change in the upstream http_server library in ponylang/http_server#74. The Content-Length header is no longer an optional header unless chunking.

Please see the updated examples for more context.

[SeanTAllen]

Office Hours...

Sean, Adrian, and Red

• Discussed actor pinning so far.
• Talked about Nominal vs structural typing
• How they relate to traits and interfaces in Pony
• When you want to use each and what they are for
• Discussed the mixin pattern and how red implemented it without knowing the pattern
• Discussed the library documentation action and pony's built in documentation building

[SeanTAllen]

Sync recording for January 7, 2024:

https://vimeo.com/1045102238