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For those who (like me) hadn't seen the Red Language before, there's a lot to like there: http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
For those who (like me) hadn't seen the Red Language before, there's a lot to like there:
http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html
Not having a baroque toolchain with fifty dependencies has in itself already persuaded me to give it a try.
- vram22 9y agoYes, and I also like their stated goal of Reducing complexity. Good luck, Reducers.
- greggirwin 9y agoWelcome to Red @Turing_Machine! Baroque is fine for music, but not for tech. :) It's funny how a certain feature will attract people to Red (and its predecessor Rebol), but then you find so much more inside. I was the same way. When I found Rebol, in 2001, it was the GUI system that hooked me. That's still a great feature, of course, but it's the core language/format itself, the datatypes, `parse`, and more that I miss when using other tools.
- throwaway7645 9y agoI've seen you on the Rebol/Red forums...do you get paid to write Rebol?
- greggirwin 9y agoI've made a living using Rebol for 16 years, with other things when I have to. :^)
- vram22 9y agoHa ha, very cool. Then you must know Nick Antonaccio, who has too. Seen his Rebol sites.
- greggirwin 9y agoYes indeed. He's a great guy.
- throwaway7645 9y agoI love his 60 bazillion sites. I've seen his stuff on lulu as well, but I wished he went into more detail on some of the apps at times. I can mostly follow along, but stuff like rebtris is pretty terse in a way (lot of functionality in one spot).
- vram22 9y agoYes he has many sites. Some overlap among them, but still good. Agreed that more detail would be good.
- throwaway7645 9y agoHaha, thanks Gregg! Glad to hear that people do. I hope Red catches on and you can use that for everything (my intent if it works out)!
- tux1968 9y agoYou inspired me to give it a try. There is a lot to like but cross platform GUI isn't there yet. All the GUI examples I tried failed with cryptic error messages. Took some searching ("Red" doesn't lead to fruitful searches by itself obviously) to find that Linux is not yet supported. Apparently the developer who cared about Linux GUI support has abandoned the cause.
- greggirwin 9y agoCross platform for Windows and Mac are there today. "Red" does make searches tough, we know. Red currently has backers, and Linux GUI hasn't been on their priority list. Android will come before Linux, and is far along already. For Linux, today, Wine is the suggested approach.