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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...

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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.

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