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Looks fun!

• postepowanieadm 2y ago
  Makes one wonder why it didn't succeeded.
  • Jtsummers 2y ago
    It wasn't ready in time for the product it was primarily intended to support, the Apple Newton, which was itself a flop in the market. If it had finished in time and the Newton hadn't been a flop, it could have been like Objective-C's move in the market with iOS (and earlier with NeXT and OS X but that was still pretty small compared to what iOS did to the language's popularity). A language buoyed by a popular platform. But that didn't happen.
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    • pjmlp 2y ago
      Actually the Dylan group finished the prototype earlier than the C++ group, on the internal competition between both groups, but apparently politis won. There are some old posts on HN from Newton team folks.
      • wrs 2y ago
        It’s a bit more complicated than that! Among other things, it wouldn’t have fit in the machine (the first Newton device had 128k of RAM).
  • NeutralForest 2y ago
    I don't know the story but why does a language ever fail? Lack of good tooling support, lack of buy-in from large projects, lack of use-cases, crowded market, etc. Not only does every new language (at the time) need to have similar ergonomics to the existing landscape, they also need compelling features to escape the inertia that keeps developers within one ecosystem.
  • fzzzy 2y ago
    Abandoned by apple before it was finished.