Thank you for your work and please, please keep working on Dylan.
A couple of years back I wanted to learn Dylan, but it really looked rather old and unfriendly. I read about Dylan module system and object system and thought it's really interesting. My first impression was that it's somewhat similar to Racket units system and to CLOS.
I hoped for Dylan to be modernized enough to make it easier for me to learn it. I forgot about it as I learned a dozen or so new (or old) exciting languages in the meantime, but seeing improvements in Dylan - especially in the docs - makes me interested in it once again.
> there are bite-sized pieces of work that could be done in a couple of hours/week that would lead to significant gains
How to get involved with it? Are there issues on Github, is there a mailing list? Free time is scarce, but if I finally decide to learn Dylan I can help with its development as well.
Again, please don't stop working on Dylan. It's only natural for such a language to have a small user base, it's nothing to be worried about. Just keep working on it and sooner or later it will become (more) popular. That's my experience with various niche languages to date, at least.
A couple of years back I wanted to learn Dylan, but it really looked rather old and unfriendly. I read about Dylan module system and object system and thought it's really interesting. My first impression was that it's somewhat similar to Racket units system and to CLOS.
I hoped for Dylan to be modernized enough to make it easier for me to learn it. I forgot about it as I learned a dozen or so new (or old) exciting languages in the meantime, but seeing improvements in Dylan - especially in the docs - makes me interested in it once again.
> there are bite-sized pieces of work that could be done in a couple of hours/week that would lead to significant gains
How to get involved with it? Are there issues on Github, is there a mailing list? Free time is scarce, but if I finally decide to learn Dylan I can help with its development as well.
Again, please don't stop working on Dylan. It's only natural for such a language to have a small user base, it's nothing to be worried about. Just keep working on it and sooner or later it will become (more) popular. That's my experience with various niche languages to date, at least.