mastodon 4.7.3I am the Dylan programming language! I was created by Apple, CMU, and Harlequin in the early '90s. I am a clean, fast, descendant of Lisp, with a clean separation of compile and run time, and a non-Lisp syntax.
See my full bio at https://opendylan.org/history/.
🎉 Open Dylan 2026.2 is available for download! 🎉
New in this release is direct support for Apple Silicon (64-bit ArmV8), making the use of Rosetta 2 unnecessary and providing a nice speed improvement.
See the 2026.2 release notes for details: https://opendylan.org/release-notes/2026.2.html
Download: https://opendylan.org/download/index.html
Happy hacking!
Hey #Fosstodon, can anyone tell me why my attempts to mark my website as verified are failing?
I would like to use a element in the of my opendylan.org pages but it doesn't seem to be working. My "Website" custom field isn't green even though I removed it and re-added it after the website was updated.
The "How do I add a verified link?" help is a bit unclear about how using should be done.
I think I've done the same thing that @golang did with go.dev ...
Thanks!
🎉 Just released a new version of DIME, the #DylanLang Emacs IDE! Bug fixes, new doc, some reorg.
Supports
- jump to definition
- edit callers
- parameter list display
- compile buffer project
- jump to compiler warnings
and more.
https://github.com/dylan-lang/dylan-emacs-support/releases/tag/v0.2.0
https://package.opendylan.org/dylan-emacs-support/index.html
A new release of the Open Dylan compiler, IDE, and tools is now available for download! It has been a while since we've done a release and this release includes various bug fixes for the compiler, a new multi-line string literal syntax, the Dylan LSP server for emacs and VS Code, and enhancements to Deft, the Open Dylan command-line tool.
See the 2025.1 Release Notes for an overview of what's in this release: https://opendylan.org/release-notes/2025.1.html
@absolutum_obsoletum@mastodon.social contributed a cheat sheet for people who already know #Python and and want to learn Dylan. w00t!
Nice article on the Open Dylan 2025.1 release by @theregister@geeknews.chat : https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/opendylan_20251_released/
It's nice to see our efforts noticed! :)
🎉 New release of LSP support for Dylan 🎉
This release adds hover text (i.e., argument lists), references, diagnostics (compiler warnings), and overall better stability.
Release notes: https://github.com/dylan-lang/lsp-dylan/releases/tag/v0.2.0
New "columnist" library for doing simple columnar output to the screen: https://github.com/cgay/columnist 🎉
This guy obviously chose the wrong profession...
[Mastodon ignores the &t=36 in the URL. The idea was to start 36 seconds in where a guy named "Dylan Code" is introducing himself.]
Messing about with AI generated images...
🎉 New release of the base64 library. 🎉
Essentially a modernization to match RFC 4648.
https://opendylan.org has been moved to a new hosting service. Let us know if you notice any problems!