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<P>[ <A HREF="fragments.phtml">Code examples</A> |
<A HREF="goals.phtml">Our goals</A> ]</P>
-<H3>The Downside of Dylan</H3>
+<H3>The current state of Dylan</H3>
-<P>Dylan isn't without some serious shortcomings. It's not widely supported
-as of the northern summer of 2001, with only two major implementations, one of
-which (ours) is still incomplete. Several features of the language could be
-more elegant, and there's a wickedly intricate set of tradeoffs when
-implementing shared libraries.</P>
+There are two major implementations of Dylan which are actively
+supported. One, d2c, is a compiler that translates Dylan code to C
+code, which was originally developed by the Gwydion group at CMU. It
+is stable, produces quite efficient code, and is highly portable to a
+wide range of systems. A group of volounteers, the Gwydion Dylan
+hackers, has been maintaining this compiler since 1998 in an typical
+Open Source process.
+
+The other one is a compiler that was originally written by a company
+called Harlequin, and after that was closed down, by a spinoff named
+Fuctional Objects. It compiles to native x86 code. It was commercially
+available for the Win32 plaform, but a port to Linux is also working
+well. The complete code of this project has been released under an
+Open Source license in early 2004, and we have successfully
+bootstrapped the compiler from source, producing snapshots for both
+Win32 and Linux.
<P>[ <A HREF="downloading.phtml">Downloading Software</A> |
<A HREF="http://www.fun-o.com";>Dylan for Windows</A> ]</P>
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