17:08 <aav> i'm looking for a toy project, to get strated with the PonyLang. one of the ideas i have is to make google protocol buffers implementation. does anyone have ideas if such thing will be useful for community? or, maybe, someone is in progress of making it?

17:19 <SeanTAllen> aav, I'm not aware of anyone working on it, but if you build it, I'm sure it will eventually be useful to someone.

17:23 <aav> SeanTAllen: got the point

18:13 <jemc> aav: I've worked a bit on a CapnProto implementation in the past, though I didn't finish it, and haven't worked on it lately

18:13 <jemc> in case it may be useful to you, here's the repo: https://github.com/jemc/pony-capnp

18:15 <jemc> hm, looks like I've got a significant amount of work locally that I never committed and pushed up to that repo - I'll do that now

18:27 <jemc> aav: pushed

18:27 <jemc> and also cleaned up compiler errors from changes to pony over the past year since I last worked on it

18:28 <jemc> I think the code generation system might be most helpful to you, since you'll also be doing code generation

18:28 <jemc> https://github.com/jemc/pony-capnp/blob/master/capnp/capnpc-pony/code_gen.pony

18:28 <jemc> https://github.com/jemc/pony-capnp/blob/master/capnp/capnpc-pony/file_generator.pony

18:30 <jemc> CodeGen is a class for general-purpose code generation, and the FileGenerator class demonstrates a capnproto-specific use of CodeGen, generating Pony class definition code based on a capnproto schema

19:09 <aav> jemc: thanx, will take a look!