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32 pointsakakievich18 comments

For those that think Dylan is another new hotshot language to compute with the Rusts and Erlangs of the world, there's a bit more history here. Dylan is nearly 30 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Dylan_programmi...

Julia is heavily inspired by Dylan, and that makes it great as this brings a fantastic compromise between static and dynamic typing. Plus, methods (multiple dispatch) bring many of the advantages from OO.

Dylan was a Swift that came too soon, at least as the sibling comment mentions, we got Julia.

We also have Dylan. Just sayin'.

Sure, and the efforts for OpenDylan should be appreciated, however I think its opportunity has been lost and what remains are the ideas on how to do a proper Algol like Lisp.

Opportunity lost or not, we're sticking with it, including preparing for a new release in the next few days (see our testing pre-release at https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/releases/tag/v2020.1...).

That is interesting to know, I thought that after the LLVM integration it had stalled.

Looks like my tiny little website is being attacked. This will take some time to deal with. Sigh.

Are you sure you aren't just underestimating the traffic level HN can generate?

Possible! When I restart the server there are instantly hundreds of connections. If so many people are interested in Dylan, let's get some code contributions going, folks. :)

I think I've fixed (well, worked around) a bug that may have been part of the problem. It's working for me now.

Thanks for the interest, everyone. It never occurred to me this would end up on Hacker News.

Great, after a few previous attempts it finally worked for me on my first attempt after seeing this report.

This site can’t be reached: play.opendylan.org refused to connect.

Try: Checking the connection

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I guess Dylan's not so open after all

Here is the official site: https://opendylan.org

Don't know what the fellow intended to post; didn't even know there was a playground, and there is no link on the official page (at least I didn't find one).

Should be back up. I have a bug in the http server, which is also written in Dylan and hasn't been battle hardened, where it sometimes fails to close connections.

@cgay be great to see this integrated with the OpenDylan homepage (interactive examples) and a nice blog write up on how it works on the news/articles section. Very cool.

Thanks, that's the plan, although I hadn't thought about writing it up. :) It's pretty simple, really, but it has definitely highlighted the fact that there's a lot of work to do on the http server. I'm trying to decide whether to push forward with that or "just" provide Dylan integration with an existing web server framework, or maybe port Hunchentoot to Dylan with https://github.com/dylan-lang/lisp-to-dylan

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