Last Week in Pony - November 6, 2022

[SeanTAllen]

No description provided.

[rhagenson]

Highlight issues:

• base64 decode over allocating buffer space ponyc#4051
  • encode/base64 currently over-allocates space during decoding, wasting memory in a stdlib method. Someone taking this issue will have to think carefully about edge cases and the order of multiplication/division given the size of the encoded data. There is an existing Zulip thread on the topic.
• Remove "person" from Type Aliases description pony-tutorial#446
  • Our Tutorial used a Person type to introduce type aliases, however in the process we made an oversight suggesting that every person has a home. This original oversight has been fixed, but we would like to rewrite the section to use something like animal classification instead. Ryan A. Hagenson, having worked on the Tutorial and animal classification before, is willing to help anyone who wishes to jump in on this issue. (Bonus points if the rewrite include lemur classification as that is what Ryan worked with in a previous life...oddly enough that classification work is what he was doing when he discovered Pony!)

Sean, if I do not get these committed to the branch I wanted to note them my "usual way" along with additional "why this issue" like was stated in Zulip.

[ponylang-main]

The 'Add RFC for the inclusion of all erase codes in the Term package' RFC has been updated to 'final comment period'
See the RFC for more details.

[SeanTAllen]

Audio for the November 1st, 2022 Pony Development Sync is available:

https://sync-recordings.ponylang.io/r/2022_11_01.m4a

[SeanTAllen]

Version 0.5.0 of seantallen-org/lori has been released.
See the release notes for more details.