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I don't know if it's changed much, but I remember that several years ago I thought about trying to learn Clean but I gave up because it looked like Linux was a second-class platform and the Clean project mostly focused on a Windows IDE.

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iirc the compiler and libraries worked fine with Linux, but work on the IDE was not being ported to Linux.

Example, Clean programs working fine on Linux --

https://web.archive.org/web/20130101063215/http://benchmarks...

Can anybody comment on this?

Their documentation states: "The latest version 2.0 of the IDE is currently only available on the Wintel and MacOS/PowerPC platform. On the other platforms a much more restricted and older version of the IDE is available. "

So it sounds about right to me.

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