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It's a crying shame that Dylan did not become the systems language of Apple's new era — it's really quite lovely. Much nicer than Objective C, though undoubtedl
by gcv 13y ago
It's a crying shame that Dylan did not become the systems language of Apple's new era — it's really quite lovely. Much nicer than Objective C, though undoubtedly trickier to compile efficiently.
- BruceM 13y agoGood thing we already have a compiler that does a pretty good job. :) (But yes, it is a pretty complicated beast in places.) But at the time, the Apple Dylan IDE was pretty slow and buggy. It is amazing what a few years make much more feasible!
- gress 13y agoIt seems as though Objective-C is slowly morphing into something more Dylan-like over time.
- protomyth 13y agoObjective-C had the advantage that it worked while Dylan struggled to get an implementation that was acceptable. It would have been interesting if it had made it onto the Newton or got a compiler that could do PowerPC acceptably.
- eonil 13y agoDeterministic realtime attribute was required condition on Apple product, and any GC based language was not acceptable at the time. But sometimes I think they could solve the issue if they could research longer.