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There is a solid person who frequented here who was the last guy working on OpenDylan and mentioned he largely abandoned that for a new passion for Rust. Besides him, was that the last person really shepherding it?

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That is me. I haven't seen much development effort since I switched to Rust. But ... I would still mentor someone who wanted to work on it or do something with it.

I was never at that level but still was very interested by your selfless work on OpenDylan. I was going through a Lisp adoration phase (not that it ended, really; one of many cycles I have) and found Dylan as "Apples prescient Lisp without parens from the future" elevator pitch and was surprised its tooling was better on Windows than Mac, basically because of you driving a very smally community of volunteers.

Perhaps I need to take another look.

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