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Thanks for your note. I have had a several bursts of play with Red, but it keeps slipping my mind. I suspect it would be an easier starting point than building

Thanks for your note. I have had a several bursts of play with Red, but it keeps slipping my mind. I suspect it would be an easier starting point than building up Forth from nothing. There may be a challenge bootstrapping that ecosystem on obscure platforms. If I remember correctly, you need an existing Red or Rebol in order to build the latest Red. I will update the Limit page with a reference to this.

7thaccount 6y ago
No problem. Rebol is built on C I think and is an interpreted language that I would guess is similar to Ruby in speed (as in fairly slow). Red should be a lot faster, but I wonder if they'll ever get there with the project being so ambitious. I do think you currently need Rebol to build the Red binary, but it'll eventually be fully self hosted and under 5 MB in size. A Red OS would be pretty neat as in you could use the high level words in interpreted mode and throw in some Red-System level code for performance if you need it. I'm a little concerned though that some of the high performance libraries will be commercial. I don't mind paying, but licensing always gets cloudy in those cases.