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Dylan was a victim of political wars with the competing C++ group at Apple.

The team even implemented Newton OS ahead of the C++ team just to prove a point, even knowing that they would be out anyway.

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I also thought about Dylan when I heard of this racket direction; and took another look at it; Open Dylan has tremendous documentation (a very enjoyable read.) The compiler has been updated relatively recently to use LLVM; the command line programs run fine on Linux; I ran it on WSL2 and it seemed to work well there; it is a very nice and interesting language.

I suspect luck, timing and fashion have a lot to do with language adoption; perhaps more than technical merit.

Thanks for the heads up, I thought that the effort to re-birth Dylan had died.

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