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Last Week in Pony - February 2, 2020 #541

Closed Theodus closed 4 years ago

ponylang-main commented 4 years ago

The Zulip got its 500th member this week.

What an awesome milestone. Baby steps to programming language domination. Baby steps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFCdCjBqcE

SeanTAllen commented 4 years ago

Audio from the January 28th, 2020 Pony development sync is available. Most of the conversation is related to Joe's work on looking into integrating a Pony-like language with Verona runtime.

rhagenson commented 4 years ago

There is growing interest in using Pony for Bioinformatics!

As the admin of pony-bio, I shared my intent on its design with the community, namely:

pony-bio should be tightly integrated to achieve the most benefit -- this is counter to a previous Bioinformatics library I designed (sembio/go), which has intentional loose coupling.

I am looking toward Rust-Bio (of which I am also a contributor) as a model Bioinformatics library for organizational concerns and future integration should a pure-Pony solution not be fast enough.

My personal philosophy is that a Bioinformatics library should make the routine and obvious just that: routine and obvious. Additional complexity has a cost, most problematically on the programmer knowing their code is correct as expected -- correctness is paramount in Bioinformatics. Therefore, I am using the Rosalind problem set (rosalind.info) as a reference for the operations that should never be made complicated.

A special :tada: thank you :tada: to @adri326, who cleaned up my mess of an initial pony-bio draft.

I invite anyone to contribute to pony-bio and help shape the future of Bioinformatics in Pony! :smiley: Anyone wishing to get involved can reach out to me on Zulip.

Edit: The cleanup of pony-bio has been completed and will be merged this evening so I fixed the word tense to reflect this fact.