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Re:Open Dylan 2011.1 released by hannesm on Sunday December 11, 2011 @12:44PM (#3340500)
Well, let's face it: There's only one compiler actively maintained. And its license is MIT!

NB: written in Dylan itself!

This even has an IDE (on Windows only), but has some problems with error reporting, producing too much output while compiling and a limited set of libraries.

The only way to improve that is to try it out, and contribute libraries!

I'm happy to look into compiler bugs - that is something I'm used to do over the last years ;)

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Re:Open Dylan 2011.1 released by donald_draper on Sunday December 11, 2011 @02:20PM (#3340771)
Given the rather small community size (from what I know), wouldn't it be the best survival technique to port the compiler to JVM, to have at least some usable real world libraries at hand ? I can hardly imagine anyone starting to use a complex typed system like that without reliable and proven libraries from the real world. It just wouldn't be worth the effort of playing around with it.
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