Open Dylan
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·January 19, 2025Neywiny
I'll say this because it's possible to go from my username to name anyway: I share a name with this language. And usually that's fine because it's not very widely used. But seeing this headline was certainly a surprise on an otherwise calm Sunday morning.
andsoitis
> I share a name with this language.
Amusingly, Bob Dylan sued Apple for trademark infringement.
hoistbypetard
At least they came to an agreement instead of just renaming it "Butt-Head Musician"
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/today-apple-history-mac-7100-...
drowntoge
You beat me to it! Old enough to remember reading about this in the tech press back in the day.
postepowanieadm
Open is quite uncommon name nowadays!
Neywiny
My parents are kinda progressive. My brothers Close and Finalize aren't as... Open to it
I’m curious - what is Dylan really for? Who should use it, and in what situations? I totally could have missed something obvious, but I read through the intro and the ‘Tour’, and it has a lot of detail about what the language is, but not much on when and where to use it. The closest thing seems to be it’s LISP but faster? What are the reasons to choose Dylan over C++, Swift, JavaScript, or Python?