Repository has bitrotted?

[nmsmith]

Has this repository bitrotted? I spent several hours just now trying to compile Dyna, but as someone who's not a Cabal expert, I was not able to get it to compile, no matter what version of Haskell or Cabal I tried. I kept getting package version clashes, primarily with wl-pprint-terminfo.

[nwf]

Yes, I imagine the repository has bitrotted quite substantially in the several years since I've completed my PhD; it was fragile even then. If you want to play with a Dyna-like language, it's possible that @timvieira has better options available.

[nmsmith]

Yes I’d love to be able to play with a similar logic language, especially if there are no functional Dyna compilers! The language has piqued my interest.

[matthewfl]

We have a new iteration of dyna that we are working on here: https://github.com/matthewfl/dyna-R/ (paper)

[nmsmith]

Exciting! I'll have a play around.

[nmsmith]

Also, it might be worth updating the README with this information to save the next poor soul some time :)

[PtrMan]

I tried to get a compiler which supports a extremely small subset of Dyna working https://github.com/PtrMan/Tenma It currently has a compiler to Haxe and a untested one to OpenCL (I belief). This thing takes the AST of the Dyna program and statically compiles it to the target language(s).

This project died down, because I am currently not using Dyna in my projects and because I have other stuff to do. But I made sure that the compiler works for simple cases.

Maybe this thing can inspire some people to try something similar, good luck :)