@DylanLanguage

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

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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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Prototype color output from the compiler and tests:
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We are more than happy to teach new contributors all that they need to know and provide small, bite-sized yet interesting tasks.
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What type of work would an intern do with us? There are so many options! Type system. Numerics. Unicode. Networking. Performance. And more!
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We are looking to have a paid intern for a Summer of Dylan. Please get in touch if interested or put someone in touch with us!
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Peter Housel continues to make progress with the LLVM backend for @DylanLanguage: libdylan initializes now and common-dylan is getting close
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By dropping the HARP compiler backend, we will be able to add SIMD primitives finally. Can't wait!
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Published a new post today: An Overview of the Dylan Type System: dylanfoundry.org/2014/08/28/…
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Happy to announce that Dylan has its own language identifier in the DWARF 5 debug info format.
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Interesting area of thought and research: what needs to be done to let someone add their own type to the @DylanLanguage?
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Writing about a complicated subject: adding function types to Open Dylan and @DylanLanguage
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A new post about function types in Dylan 2016: dylanfoundry.org/2014/08/01/… (help welcome, as usual)
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Too big for a tweet: Viewing all variables in a stack frame plus slots, to a depth of 2 in LLDB: hastebin.com/nugasalavu.lua
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Published a blog post that I wrote last month on reducing the overhead of generic/multimethod dispatch: dylanfoundry.org/2014/06/24/…
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The previous tweet is a preview of what is coming soon: LLDB tool support. Making daily progress!
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(lldb) frame variable (dylan_value) accessor_ = 0x0288a260 {<native-file-accessor>} (dylan_value) count_ = 0x00010001 {<integer>: 16384} ...
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So if you can make some time for us, tweet at us or see us on IRC (#dylan on Freenode) and we'll make time for you.
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If you want to see @DylanLanguage survive, consider volunteering some time. Even 1-2 hours/week is useful. You don't even need to know Dylan
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Would there be interest in placing bounties on bugs and feature requests for Open Dylan using something like BountySource.com?
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We're looking for help with various things, please take a look! opendylan.org/news/2014/01/2…
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