Open Dylan 2014.1 released¶

Dear Dylan Hacker,

It is a pleasure for us to announce a new release of Open Dylan.

Dylan is a multi-paradigm functional and object-oriented programming language. It is dynamic while providing a programming model designed to support efficient machine code generation, including fine-grained control over dynamic and static behaviors.

For more information on Open Dylan, see our website and our documentation.

We have extensive release notes, but highlights include:

bash completion scripts are available.

The foundation of an Objective C / Dylan bridge has been integrated with the compiler. This enables using the objc-dylan library.

Passing structs by value using C-FFI now works on both the C and HARP back-ends.

Performance improvements have been made to various libraries.

Laying the groundwork for LLVM compiler back-end support to arrive in 2015.

Laying the groundwork for improving our Unicode support.

Many other miscellaneous fixes and improvements.

Please report problems that you have in our issue tracker.

You can get it from our website, http://opendylan.org/download/. On Windows there is an installer, on UNIX systems unpack into /opt . On 64 bit Linux, you will need to have the Boehm GC installed for our executables to run. (Ubuntu: apt-get install libgc )

Our plan is to have a first release of Open Dylan with an LLVM-backed compiler back-end within the next couple of months as our 2015.1 release. Here’s hoping we can make that happen!

Good luck and happy Dylan hacking!