ralph

Ralph was the initial name of the project, from the film the invisible man. More about dylan history:(1) Ralph used prefix notation, dylan infix notation. Here you can find an implementation of ralph:(2) From (2): Ralph is a Lisp-1 dialect that compiles to JavaScript. It is heavily inspired by an early version of Dylan (also known as "Prefix Dylan"), as described in Dylan – An object-oriented dynamic language. Also (3) is about a Lisp to Dylan translator. There is also norvig lisp to dylan translator cited in (3). (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Dylan_programmi... (2) https://github.com/turbolent/ralph (3) https://tim.pritlove.org/2003/11/10/converting-lisp-to-dylan...

Pretty sure if they were to add a whitespace sensitive syntax ala python/coffeescript and get it compiling to js they'd be riding to victory. From what I can tell there is actually a project https://github.com/turbolent/ralph to bring dylan to the web.

I've been working on Ralph for a while now: https://github.com/turbolent/ralph It compiles a major subset of Apple's Dylan (http://lispm.dyndns.org/documentation/prefix-dylan/book.anno...) to JavaScript, both for use on a CommonJS implementation and in the browser. A bootstrapping compiler is implemented in JS, but the same compiler is also available in Ralph itself and features define-macro (Cl-like). The whole runtime is defined in Ralph as well and provides a single-inheritance object system (including next-method): https://github.com/turbolent/ralph/blob/master/src/runtime/c... Almost all of the features are shown in https://github.com/turbolent/ralph/blob/master/src/tests/run... and I'm using it a project now. To build HTML5 apps, there's a small toolbox: https://github.com/turbolent/toolbox Maybe it's useful to someone else. Cheers