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Red got sidetracked by an attempt to build local economy based on an ERC-20 token, to be precise: for tipping contributors, funding FOSS projects and helping ma
by 9214 6y ago
Red got sidetracked by an attempt to build local economy based on an ERC-20 token, to be precise: for tipping contributors, funding FOSS projects and helping maintainers, curating high-quality learning materials within community, etc. That didn't pan out in the near term since no-one shared the enthusiasm.
Besides, there are only a few active contributors helping the project, others, unfortunately, prefer to watch from afar and wait, or to pick Red apart feature-by-feature for other languages — and TBH I don't know if this is a historical problem with Rebol family or lack of goal-oriented communication from Red's side which would encourage people to participate (e.g. write a Postgres driver).
- libx 6y agoI had interest in Rebol and Red, but lost it. Lost the interest because of what you mention, but also because building algorithms with it imply a big cognitive load for me. Since then, I'm very happy with TCL, one of the inspirations for Rebol. Its syntax is regular, it's a professional tool, conservative, i.e. doesn't break code at each new release, has great GUI with Tk, and many other advantages.