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by cgay 3y ago
Very nice article. I'll be interested to hear where you end up, with eglot or lsp-mode. A quibble (based on my knowledge of Common Lisp, I'm not sure if it applies exactly the same way to Clojure): "Language server has to do
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by cgay 4y ago
+1. Earlier than I thought. I had guessed 1989.
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by cgay 4y ago
Gwydion Dylan has been out of the picture for years. Open Dylan is the only maintained implementation. Perhaps you went down a wrong path....
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by cgay 4y ago
Yes. Making a macro for defining enums isn't that hard (there's one here: https://github.com/cgay/uncommon-dylan/blob/master/enum.dyla... ). I, for one, welcome my whitespace-surrounded operator
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by cgay 6y ago
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 de
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by cgay 6y ago
We also have Dylan. Just sayin'.
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by cgay 6y ago
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.
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by cgay 6y ago
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. :)
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by cgay 6y ago
Looks like my tiny little website is being attacked. This will take some time to deal with. Sigh.
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by cgay 6y ago
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.
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by cgay 13y ago
< > is a naming convention for types (e.g., classes) only.
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by cgay 15y ago
The Dylan language spec has amazingly few edge cases. It allows a continuum of dynamic -> static typing and a range of functional <-> OO. With the right set of libraries it could be great in the scripting space as Python, but