3 ms·

My point was more what is the average developer going to think of this language / its homepage. Its mission isn't entirely clear, and it's showing off some GUI

My point was more what is the average developer going to think of this language / its homepage. Its mission isn't entirely clear, and it's showing off some GUI functionality that's been available in other languages for a very long time. I didn't mean the GUI support was the basis of evaluating it and I guess my post came off as flippant. It wasn't clear from their site though why this language should enter the mainstream. I couldn't really glean off the site if that's even their goal or not, it was pretty technical and not very inviting.

rgchris 11y ago
As it's still early in terms of its development, it may be better to judge the language by perusing the pages of its predecessor: • Rebol in Ten Steps: http://rebol.com/rebolsteps.html http://rebol.com/rebolsteps.html • Rebol Overview: http://www.rebol.com/docs/expert-intro.html http://www.rebol.com/docs/expert-intro.html Rebol is an elegant attempt at better using language to solve problems. It offers a rich vocabulary centered around words and includes natural representations of various types, such as URLs (that you can query), emails (that you can send messages to), times, dates and more. The main data structure (blocks) are instrumental in language flow and can be manipulated as data before being interpreted as code: • More than just code—A Deep Lake: http://www.rebol.com/article/0103.html http://www.rebol.com/article/0103.html It is different and it's not immediately apparent what it brings to the table. However, that it does have this depth and is squeezed into a < 1 meg package without dependencies hints at why there are a few of us that consider it tremendously versatile and worthy of a more prominent place in the development firmament.