REBOL 3 has been open sourced, at least to some extent: http://github.com/carls/R3A110 http://github.com/carls/R3A110 As usual with this kind of conversion the

REBOL 3 has been open sourced, at least to some extent: http://github.com/carls/R3A110 http://github.com/carls/R3A110 As usual with this kind of conversion there were things they couldn't open source or otherwise include. The biggest problem (for me) with R3 is that they decided to redo REBOL 2's incredible compositing GUI environment, but ran out of runway before they could finish. It needed a rework -- people expect more from modern apps. But R2's GUI stuff is just so good, simple and orthoganal. It has completely spoiled me for any other GUI platform. I even wound up implementing a chunk of their GUI SDL in Python so I could bear to work with Wx. However, it's still a pretty small language and has some really nice capabilities. It's very different from a lot of other languages, but it's also one of the faster ones to develop in. Using R2, I was able to provide and support rich GUI apps for a department at my company that I wouldn't otherwise have been able to help. These weren't typical line-of-business electronic forms either, but graphical editing tools with fullscreen interfaces, database connectivity and heavy parsing. I really miss using REBOL...