Eleven years to a finite recursive type alias

· Ponylang · May 17, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses an upcoming feature in the Pony programming language that will allow the use of recursive type aliases, specifically through a pull request currently under review. This feature addresses a long-standing limitation in the language's compiler regarding recursive data structures, enabling more flexible and sophisticated data type definitions, particularly for JSON-like structures.
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