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Red is awesome. Why it's not hip it's a mystery to me...
by kome 9y ago
Red is awesome. Why it's not hip it's a mystery to me...
- holydude 9y agoIt is a chicken egg problem really it is the same like Nim, Crystal etc
- nickelbox 9y agoI feel like both of those get more attention than Red does. I've written a bit in both, but completely forgot Red existed (sample of 1, yada yada).
- roywiggins 9y agoI've heard of both of those, but not Red. So n++, I guess.
- Volt 9y agoIt doesn't even have GC yet.
- 35bge57dtjku 9y agoLike C or like Java with the GC turned off?
- rebolek 9y agoC has alloc and free. Red is supposed to be garbage collected, so there's no free.
- mzzter 9y agoHow come Red doesn’t have a GC then? If Red doesn’t have free, does it just leak memory?
- 35bge57dtjku 9y agoIt's like there's an echo in here.
- greggirwin 9y agoGC will come. It just hasn't been needed yet for Red to continue its own development. If you write in Red/System, the C level dialect, you have `free`.
- mzzter 9y agoI guess I’ll try asking this again: How come Red doesn’t have a GC? If Red doesn’t have free, does it just leak memory?
- christophilus 9y agoYes. Last I checked, it just leaks memory. It doesn't have GC because it's a new language that is under heavy development. It doesn't have a lot of things that any sane language must have before 1.0. Give it time.
- 9214 9y agoFirst version of GC (and maybe some memory-management natives) will be integrated in 0.6.4 release, meanwhile there's some bag of tricks and conventions (`/into` refinement, creating series with `make ...`, etc) you can use to avoid additional allocations (almost) entirely.
- 9214 9y agoThere isn't much reason to give unfinished language (0.6.3 version as of now) lots of exposure, since lack of useful features / libs / docs / etc might be a potential turn off. Usually everyone starts to jump on a hype train prior to 1.0 release.