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Very nice article. I'll be interested to hear where you end up, with eglot or lsp-mode. A quibble (based on my knowledge of Common Lisp, I'm not sure if it applies exactly the same…

+1. Earlier than I thought. I had guessed 1989.

Gwydion Dylan has been out of the picture for years. Open Dylan is the only maintained implementation. Perhaps you went down a wrong path....

Yes. Making a macro for defining enums isn't that hard (there's one here: https://github.com/cgay/uncommon-dylan/blob/master/enum.dyla... ). I, for one, welcome my whitespace-surro…

Thanks, that's the plan, although I hadn't thought about writing it up. :) It's pretty simple, really, but it has definitely highlighted the fact that there's a lot of work to do o…

We also have Dylan. Just sayin'.

I think I've fixed (well, worked around) a bug that may have been part of the problem. It's working for me now. Thanks for the interest, everyone. It never occurred to me this woul…

Possible! When I restart the server there are instantly hundreds of connections. If so many people are interested in Dylan, let's get some code contributions going, folks. :)

Looks like my tiny little website is being attacked. This will take some time to deal with. Sigh.

Should be back up. I have a bug in the http server, which is also written in Dylan and hasn't been battle hardened, where it sometimes fails to close connections.

is a naming convention for types (e.g., classes) only.

The Dylan language spec has amazingly few edge cases. It allows a continuum of dynamic -> static typing and a range of functional OO. With the right set of libraries it could be gr…