:orphan: :Author: Carl Gay :Date: 2019-03-31 00:00:00 Open Dylan 2019.1 Released ========================== Posted on 31 March 2019 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. Although there are many changes in this release, the main highlight is that the **LLVM back-end**, which uses LLVM 7.x or later for code generation, is now full-featured and mature on i386 and x86_64 Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS platforms. Other highlights include: * A backtrace is printed when the program exits due to an unhandled error. * Linking is faster, with a new ``-jobs`` option to use multiple processes. * Compiler warning improvements, including colorized output. * Optimizations to limited integer types. * Support for building C++ code as part of a Dylan project. * A new ``lldb`` wrapper script that preloads the Dylan integration scripts. * Run-time primitives to aid in profiling and event logging. For full details on changes in this release see the :doc:`release notes `, or go directly to the :doc:`download page `. For more information on Open Dylan, see https://opendylan.org/. Good luck and happy Dylan hacking!