Re: [dylan] The Future of Dylan: What do we use it for?

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What do we all use or want to use Dylan for?
>

At this point, I'm more interested in server-side stuff than GUI
applications.

Part of that is that we don't have any remaining cross-platform support for
GUI applications. Part of it is that given how things are today, I'm more
likely to just use an HTML / CSS / JS interface in front of a server anyway.

As for server side stuff, I think we have a good HTTP server and logging
framework. There's some work to be done there, but it works.

Where we're really lacking though is in data access. In my mind, we really
could use a Redis library and Postgres client at the least. There's other
stuff as well. I'd like a templating library that was pretty much a clone
of Jinja2.

One thing that I saw recently was this: https://kore.io/

That impressed me with how simple it was to get started and actually doing
something. That's another area where we could improve. :)

I am interested in doing semantic web type stuff in Dylan.

Some data analysis would be interesting, but that's currently a tough niche
to hit though with a lot of competition from Clojure, Julia, R and others.

Anyway, that's just my off-the-cuff thoughts on that.

 - Bruce

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On W=
ed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Bruce Mitchener <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">bruce.mitchener@gma=
il.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=
left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p=
adding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>What do we all use or want to use Dy=
lan for?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At this point, I&#39;m more interest=
ed in server-side stuff than GUI applications.</div><div><br></div><div>Par=
t of that is that we don&#39;t have any remaining cross-platform support fo=
r GUI applications. Part of it is that given how things are today, I&#39;m =
more likely to just use an HTML / CSS / JS interface in front of a server a=
nyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for server side stuff, I think we have a good HTTP s=
erver and logging framework. There&#39;s some work to be done there, but it=
 works.</div><div><br></div><div>Where we&#39;re really lacking though is i=
n data access. In my mind, we really could use a Redis library and Postgres=
 client at the least. There&#39;s other stuff as well. I&#39;d like a templ=
ating library that was pretty much a clone of Jinja2.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One thing that I saw recently was this:=C2=A0<a href=3D=
"https://kore.io/">https://kore.io/</a></div><div><br></div><div>That impre=
ssed me with how simple it was to get started and actually doing something.=
 That&#39;s another area where we could improve. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am interested in doing semantic web type stuff in Dyl=
an.</div><div><br></div><div>Some data analysis would be interesting, but t=
hat&#39;s currently a tough niche to hit though with a lot of competition f=
rom Clojure, Julia, R and others.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, that&#39;s just my off-the-cuff thoughts on tha=
t.</div><div><br></div><div>=C2=A0- Bruce</div><div><br></div></div></div><=
/div>

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