ldesegur

VLC is the biggest POS I have ever installed on my Mac (as far as I can remember.) Who cares about licensing and streaming when the app is not even able to keep with video playback on latest hardware. What a joke! Hideous UI, buried options (try removing color or reizing subtitles), even worse: skipping frames while zero tasks running on latest i7 with 8GB RAM and 7.2K HD (I've checked with top) !!! What a crap. So I said: VLC, go away! I switched to MPlayer and all of those issues went away from that very moment. Good riddance.

Every modern flavor of concurrency, be it STM, Actor Model or why not, will abstract threads and locks but won't remove them underneath. There is no magic. So if this Dylan implementation doesn't even support the foundation yet, that doesn't seem likely.

Here is an interesting link about macros in Dylan. IMHO, infix notation makes it so much harder to implement macros than in CL. http://www.fun-principles.info/slot/site/dylan/alpha/openpoi...

Too late as being able to bring to the table something that enough developers would care about so their efforts don't fall quickly into oblivion. I've seen so many times projects like this trying to resurrect a "passe" technology just for nostalgia sake. Without a decent community of motivated supporters and a real solution to current issues developers are facing, I fear that Dylan will follow the same path. In the specific case of Dylan, I remember that its infix notation didn't support very well one of best LISP features, namely macros. And while studying the language in the late 90s, I also learned that David Moon, one of the original designers, moved to work on something else. I took it as a sign. Don't get me wrong, I liked Dylan over Common LISP at the time, becauee they did a great job at simplifying the mess with collections and its notation would mean greater adoption. That was obviously not enough to succeed. As for embracing OOP, so does Scala, although at the cost of some compromises. But at least with Scala, the platform is here to address real projects. Do you really have the time and energy to start rebuilding all the libraries that are required to develop anything beside a toy project?

With all due respect for people who've been working on this: Isn't it too late (by at least 5 years)? What's the point of reviving Dylan if it doesn't bring something radically new?

And reading the project status: "No support for threads yet"; Than, isn't it too early to re-release it yet?

Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, and Scala have been fueling my interest in DSL. I don't see what Dylan would bring to the picture that the other languages provide already.