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Dylan is a fast, object-functional language with gradual typing, clean syntax, and powerful macro system.

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4 Nov 2022
For those who are interested in continuing to follow @DylanLanguage , we've moved to fosstodon.org/web/@DylanLang We'll leave this account active for now, but posts will be on fosstodon.org. You can follow the above DylanLang account from most federated Mastodon servers.

Dylan Language (@DylanLang@fosstodon.org)

39 Posts, 132 Following, 159 Followers · I am the Dylan programming language! I was created by Apple, CMU, and Harlequin in the early '90s. I am a clean, fast, descendant of Lisp, with a clean...

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A post about current Dylan projects. mastodon.technology/web/@Dyl… We'll be posting from @dylanlang@mastodon.technology first, from now on, but will try and repost things here as well.
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New (beta) package manager and package doc site: mastodon.social/web/@sigue/1…

Carl Gay (@sigue@mastodon.social)

Having recently completed a beta version of a package manager for Dylan, I've been working on generating a website from all the package docs. Still a lot of packages and docs to move over, but the...

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mastodon.social/web/@sigue/1…

Carl Gay (@sigue@mastodon.social)

Put out a first decent version (0.6.0) of my Dylan package manager command-line tool for managing workspaces. Will make it part of the upcoming Open Dylan release. It implements Minimal Version...

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A GitHub Action for all of your Dylan continuous integration needs. (Linux-only, for now. macOS and Windows coming soon.) github.com/marketplace/actio…

install-opendylan - GitHub Marketplace

Install the Open Dylan compiler and tools

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macOS support has been added now.
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So what's a good name for a tool that creates Dylan dev workspaces, builds/runs tests, lists available packages etc? Should we go with boring "dylan" (the current choice) or is there something more fun we could use? Commence the bikeshedding!
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So far "dylan" remains in the lead. 😁
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0/ Do you think of each of Lisp, Common Lisp, CLOS, and Dylan as a "functional programming language"? Asking for @rtfeldman. CC @RainerJoswig @carlgay @gregork and anyone else who feels like answering. Four questions, each one separate tweet below: ↵
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The Open Dylan compiler now supports RISC-V on 64-bit Linux! github.com/dylan-lang/opendy…

RISC-V 64-bit Linux support by housel · Pull Request #1364 · dylan-lang/opendylan

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The Dylan Playground can now share code examples!
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New release! This release significantly improves the performance of compiled code and comes with "batteries included", for trivial installation. opendylan.org/news/2020/10/1…
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With a simple commit we have comprehensive emacs tags support: github.com/dylan-lang/opendy… Next up...LSP support?
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Support for aarch64/linux added to Open Dylan: github.com/dylan-lang/opendy…

AArch64 linux support by housel · Pull Request #1280 · dylan-lang/opendylan

These commits add support for running the Open Dylan compiler and its target output on 64-bit Arm Linux (aarch64-linux) platforms. Tested with LLVM/Clang 9.0.0 on two different AArch64 systems runn...

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archlinux package "opendylan" now available.
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git clone aur.archlinux.org/opendylan.…; cd opendylan; makepkg -si
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With a recent fix to method dispatch caching, code generated by the LLVM back-end is now 33% faster than code generated by the C back-end.
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Excited to announce a big new release of the Open Dylan compiler! opendylan.org/news/2019/03/3…

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Dylan, now with more LLVM 8: releases.llvm.org/8.0.0/docs…

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