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Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by cgay » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

kencausey wrote: post #10

cgay wrote: post #9

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

Are you sure you aren't just underestimating the traffic level HN can generate?

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. :)

Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by cgay » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 5:04 PM UTC

cgay wrote: post #9

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

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 would end up on Hacker News.

Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by kencausey » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

cgay wrote: post #12

cgay wrote: post #9

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

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 would end up on Hacker News.

Great, after a few previous attempts it finally worked for me on my first attempt after seeing this report.

Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by cgay » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #7

joezydeco wrote: post #5

For those that think Dylan is another new hotshot language to compute with the Rusts and Erlangs of the world, there's a bit more history here. Dylan is nearly 30 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Dylan_programmi...

Dylan was a Swift that came too soon, at least as the sibling comment mentions, we got Julia.

We also have Dylan. Just sayin'.

Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by pjmlp » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

cgay wrote: post #14

pjmlp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dylan was a Swift that came too soon, at least as the sibling comment mentions, we got Julia.

We also have Dylan. Just sayin'.

Sure, and the efforts for OpenDylan should be appreciated, however I think its opportunity has been lost and what remains are the ideas on how to do a proper Algol like Lisp.

Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by housel » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #15

cgay wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We also have Dylan. Just sayin'.

Sure, and the efforts for OpenDylan should be appreciated, however I think its opportunity has been lost and what remains are the ideas on how to do a proper Algol like Lisp.

Opportunity lost or not, we're sticking with it, including preparing for a new release in the next few days (see our testing pre-release at https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/releases/tag/v2020.1...).

Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by pjmlp » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

housel wrote: post #16

pjmlp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, and the efforts for OpenDylan should be appreciated, however I think its opportunity has been lost and what remains are the ideas on how to do a proper Algol like Lisp.

Opportunity lost or not, we're sticking with it, including preparing for a new release in the next few days (see our testing pre-release at https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/releases/tag/v2020.1... ).

That is interesting to know, I thought that after the LLVM integration it had stalled.

Re: Dylan Playground

#18

Post by ptrott2017 » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

cgay wrote: post #8

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.

@cgay be great to see this integrated with the OpenDylan homepage (interactive examples) and a nice blog write up on how it works on the news/articles section. Very cool.

Re: Dylan Playground

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Post by cgay » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

ptrott2017 wrote: post #18

cgay wrote: post #8

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.

@cgay be great to see this integrated with the OpenDylan homepage (interactive examples) and a nice blog write up on how it works on the news/articles section. Very cool.

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 on the http server. I'm trying to decide whether to push forward with that or "just" provide Dylan integration with an existing web server framework, or maybe port Hunchentoot to Dylan with https://github.com/dylan-lang/lisp-to-dylan