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Any applications coded in Dylan?

Hello, Dylan Aficionados,

Are there any applications (commercial?) that are coded in Dylan?  Are
there any ongoing now?  Does anyone supply software to their customers
with this?  Is Dylan becoming more popular or less popular?

I have recently had trials and tribulations with Eiffel, Lisp, and Oz.
Right now I am working with Clean (a functional language), but am
undecided whether Clean or Dylan will be more suitable for me.

I am looking for something to in which to code commercial applications
with a nice front end and a modicum of various forms of AI included.
Right now, I am quite productive with MS VB for the front end with the
brains coded in Prolog.  This environment is both productive and fun,
but I would like to expand my repertoire.

I was looking for something Lisp-like.  I am goofing on Concurrent
Clean right now (a purely functional language).  I feel this is
providing me with new insights and I am having a blast, but I am a bit
worried about molding my manner of thinking into one paradigm for
entire programs (which is why I use VB as a front-end for Prolog
engines).

Dylan seems like a language in which one could code in an imperative,
object-oriented, or functional manner, and in which it would be easy
to add routines to code in a declarative manner if so desired.  (Sort
of what Oz (Mozart) should be.)  It seems to me that entire programs
can be produced in Dylan with different parts of the program using
different paradigms.

My concern is over the messages I read in this forum.  I have read
here that Harlequin dropped Dylan, that Functional Objects is a hobby
company for compiler writers in their spare time, and that it takes
more than 3 months to get a tech-support response from the FO team.
For none of these posts do I see anyone refuting the claims, and I see
no posts at all from the FO team in this forum.  All of this makes me
think that the project is essentially defunct.

This is not a troll.  Dylan looks very interesting and useful, and I
wonder if I should look into it as a system in which I can code
commercial applications.  Can anyone confirm or allay my fears?

Thank you,
   - Zeno
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