:orphan: :Author: Bruce Mitchener, Jr. :Date: 2015-01-01 00:00:00 Open Dylan 2014.1 released ========================== Dear Dylan Hacker, It is a pleasure for us to announce a new release of Open Dylan. Dylan is a multi-paradigm functional and object-oriented programming language. It is dynamic while providing a programming model designed to support efficient machine code generation, including fine-grained control over dynamic and static behaviors. For more information on Open Dylan, see our `website `_ and our `documentation `_. We have extensive :doc:`release notes `, but highlights include: * bash completion scripts are available. * The foundation of an Objective C / Dylan bridge has been integrated with the compiler. This enables using the `objc-dylan `_ library. * Passing structs by value using C-FFI now works on both the C and HARP back-ends. * Performance improvements have been made to various libraries. * Laying the groundwork for LLVM compiler back-end support to arrive in 2015. * Laying the groundwork for improving our Unicode support. * Many other miscellaneous fixes and improvements. Please report problems that you have in our `issue tracker `_. You can get it from our website, https://opendylan.org/. On Windows there is an installer, on UNIX systems unpack into ``/opt``. On 64 bit Linux, you will need to have the Boehm GC installed for our executables to run. (Ubuntu: ``apt-get install libgc``) Our plan is to have a first release of Open Dylan with an LLVM-backed compiler back-end within the next couple of months as our 2015.1 release. Here's hoping we can make that happen! Good luck and happy Dylan hacking!