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Mac OS X presents an opportunity for Dylan
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Mac OS X presents an opportunity for Dylan
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From: daha@best.com (David S. Harrison)
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:00:02 -0500 (EST)
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Organization: a user of Best Internet Communications, Inc. www.best.com
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Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.dylan:12851
I recently installed the Mac OS X prerelease on my Macintosh at home
and it occurred to me that OS X provides an interesting opportunity
to attract developers to Dylan. Lots of developers will be looking
to fill the native OS X application space over the next year or
two. It would be great if some of those applications were written
in Dylan.
Anyone know if Fun-O is targeting Mac OS X? Does the CodeWarrior
plug-in for d2c/mindy work on OS X? Would it be feasible
to quickly create bindings to Carbon (the new UI API for OS X)?
Given a reasonable development environment, I think it might
be possible to attract a fair number of developers to Dylan.
I think the key to success for such an endeavor is a fast
turn around compiler and an excellent debugger. It seems like
such a wonderful opportunity to wrest some developers from the
dark ages of C/C++ and into the light.
David S. Harrison
(daha@best.com)