Open Dylan

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@elonmusk This is literally the dumbest thing I've ever read.

Twitter is like open-sourcing the news

@xinitrc youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLlW7…

Internet, do you have any movie recommendation? I really don't have an idea what to watch but am in dire need of some entertainment. So probably nothing too deep.

@hydo Quite some work, I would think, since you'll have to keep up with the continuous changes to the project. Anyway, if you do it make it open source so I can run lisp-to-dylan on it. Thanks!

Oh, hello there. I know that voice well. It’s the voice that makes me spend every spare second for months at a time on a project^Wobsession. Right now it’s saying “Just how much work would it be to write a complete mastodon server in CL?”.

@haxor @munificentbob In a modern (circa the late '90s) Lisp, they are called head and tail.

@munificentbob I don't understand the appeal of the car and cdr short-hand combinations when you can use destructuring instead. But in a modern Lisp should the functions be first/rest, head/tail, or something else entirely?

Lispers: Lisp is the most beautiful language, so elegant that it wasn't so much created as discovered, as timeless as mathematics itself—which it of course is. Lisp: LOL my two most common functions are named after CPU instructions from a weird-ass chip that IBM made in the 50s.

@_julesh_ People don't seem to think Dylan is a Lisp so maybe it's the s-expressions that really matter to Lispers.

I’m curious about the parallel universe where Javascript’s syntax was based on html rather than Java, which is sufficiently close to sexps that you could do genuinely Lispy things

Time for the even more controversial second round poll: is Javascript a Lisp?

@tpolecat Dylan, because there's so much low-hanging fruit to implement. 😜 Working on improving the devx, with packages, a generalized build/install/update/status tool, a Lisp-like debugger/REPL, and LSP server.

@wfaler @SusanPotter @timperrett @tpolecat Do you mean zero values?

@tpolecat @AgileSue What tools are y'all using to write 6502 these days? I used to use the LISA assembler on Apple II+.

@nodefunallowed Port/ic

Trying to come up with names for a portable type inferencer/checker, currently stuck on puns of ATS. Why not "Mediocre Type System"?

A post about current Dylan projects. @DylanLang/108466923873806659" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.technology/web/@DylanLang… We'll be posting from @dylanlang@mastodon.technology first, from now on, but will try and repost things here as well.

New (beta) package manager and package doc site: @sigue/108462575521873046" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/web/@sigue/108…

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@nickikt heh, not sure about "mindy" per se, since Mindy still exists as a thing, but...and hear me out...what about "notbob"? notbob new workspace foo 🤔 And I forgot there's @ArmyOfBruce 's name, "deft", although that probably had different design goals. Good name though.

@DylanLanguage How about a classic Dylan history name 'mindy'. Dylan and Mindy working together. 'Mindy is npm Dylan' or something like that.

So what's a good name for a tool that creates Dylan dev workspaces, builds/runs tests, lists available packages etc? Should we go with boring "dylan" (the current choice) or is there something more fun we could use? Commence the bikeshedding!

macOS support has been added now.

A GitHub Action for all of your Dylan continuous integration needs. (Linux-only, for now. macOS and Windows coming soon.) github.com/marketplace/ac…

So far "dylan" remains in the lead. 😁

@Apocryphon In truth, since Dylan is supposed to be a portmanteau for Dynamic Language, we should really pronounce it the way Dave Chappelle does there. I learned something here today.

@DylanLanguage Diddy, as in this sketch

@Amber__Saber hmm. But the whole point is that you don't have to do it yourself. Also I'm not sure how to pronounce this. :)

@DylanLanguage diy

@drjtwit This is a remarkably reasonable suggestion. I think we're going to have to pass, though, for homophonic reasons.