Thoughts on a New Dylan Ecosystem

Re:Thoughts on a New Dylan Ecosystem by mpweiher on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:56PM (#6721500)

Mac OS X's main language is Objective-C because it is essentially NeXTStep 5.0 and the basic libraries were mature Objective-C libraries. I don't see how Dylan would have entered the picture.

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Re:Thoughts on a New Dylan Ecosystem by pjmlp on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @05:19PM (#6721683)

I know Objective-C since the NeXT days, even before Apple dreamed about buying NeXT.

As for Dylan, it was going to be Newton's application language, before the project was canned.

So playing "What If" scenarios, if the language stayed in Apple's control, and if NeXT was still bought, Dylan might have had a life in whatever form Mac OS X would have shaped itself.

Although this is a very unlikely scenario, Apple was actually not that sure that Objective-C would take off as it did.

This is why there was a Java/Cocoa bridge with first class treatment on the early days of Mac OS X, before focusing only on Objective-C.

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