June 08 1999 --Gwydion Dylan is a portable, optimizing Dylan compiler. It was originally written by the Gwydion Group at CMU and is now maintained by volunteers. Eventually, we'd like Gwydion Dylan to become a top-notch tool for building complicated applications written in a mix of Dylan and C.
The current release is a development release. This means that the different projects we're working on are not finished, not documented or buggy. Nevertheless lots of bugs have been fixed and functionality added, so if you don't mind a little adventure, this release is definitely for you. For details, see the NEWS file in the source distribution.
The Dylan programming language was designed with three goals in mind: high performance, rapid prototyping and ease of use. Recently, the Gwydion volunteers and Harlequin's Dylan team have been working a fourth goal: seamless integration of Dylan programs with existing C code. In order to achieve this, we have been working on the common-dylan library, which is intended to give 100% source code compatibility, as well as a HD-compatible c-ffi library. We're also working on pidgin, a new tool to parse header files and automatically generate C bindings from that. This is not complete, but you can see the beginnings in this release.
Dylan is a trademark of Apple Computer, Incorporated. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.