[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: Dylan Newbie just wanting to say hi.
In article <38CCD6CD.282B391@dial.pipex.com>, jt <gkt37@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Certainly. How can exposure for dylan be increased? I started learning
> dylan but only had a couple of weeks before a contract came in, and had
> to put it aside. I will definitely return to it, but in the meantime I'm
> slightly concerned by the lack of publicity about it. Everything seems a
> bit quiet, and that bothers me. I'd love to do something to help but at
> the moment it's delphi for me probably for the next few months.
If I was a Windows programmer then I'd be pushing Fun-O Dylan as hard as I
could for any projects that came my way. It's real, it works, and it
interfaces well with the rest of the Windows world.
However as a Mac and (sometimes) Un*x programmer I know that Dylan isn't
quite there yet. We desperately need a workable C FFI for d2c finished!
That's by far I think the biggest thing. I'd also love to see the speed
and executable size of d2c improve to at least be comparable to g++ (which
is a pig compared to gcc).
I'd love to see more people working on this stuff and more activity, but
at the same time I'm leery of evangalising *too* hard and having hordes of
people turn up here with high hopes only tobe disappointed at the outset.
There's a new high-profile OS coming up soon, with lots of legacy apps but
few native ones -- MacOS X. Perhaps there's a real chance to get Dylan
established as a premier programming language there?
-- Bruce
Follow-Ups:
References: