Chris Double

I like the way in the HD versions of Dylan that all libraries are packaged as DLL's. For me it has encouraged reuse of common libraries.

The HD c-ffi is good - it is easy to access Windows API and other external API's. I would like to be able to use this in the listener though but that is currently not possible unfortunately. I've never had an external API I couldn't call via Dylan yet.

I was a bit dubious that people would download the HD runtime, given its size, just to run a small freeware thing but I was surprised that this proved not to be an obstacle. And once I wrote a few more add on programs there was no need for users to download the large file again. I guess the HD runtime isn't that much bigger than all the MFC DLL's or the VB runtime stuff. Over the last two months there were about 2,000 downloads of the HD runtime and associated utilities from my web site so it seems that end users didn't mind running Dylan stuff.