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This language has been under my radar for some time. Recently, I asked a question about "automatic GUI creators" [1] but suggestions were not what I was looking
by ducktective 5y ago
This language has been under my radar for some time. Recently, I asked a question about "automatic GUI creators" [1] but suggestions were not what I was looking for.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27820141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27820141
Then, I decided to google some keywords (like GUI DSLs) limiting it to HN threads. Someone suggested: 'this is essentially REBOL...'. Then I went to this rabbit-hole of REBOL, RED, homoiconicity, DSLs....
Fun Fact: Did you know the whole compiler and interpreter of Red with all batteries included (including cross-platfrom GUI bindings) is a ~1 MiB single binary?!!
Some links:
Red's originator talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqNO_sDqm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqNO_sDqm4
Red sample programs:
https://github.com/red/community/ https://github.com/red/community/
Especially this `parse` dialect seem to be a "readable" regexp:
https://github.com/red/community/tree/master/parse https://github.com/red/community/tree/master/parse
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- 7thaccount 5y agoOn my radar for ages as well, but it's never quite ready. Very ambitious. If they ever get it working as intended, it will be a game changer to be able to write small executables with a GUI, DSLs...etc while staying so lightweight. Good luck to the team. It's been a little weird that I haven't seen a new blog post in so long (almost a year), when updates used to happen fairly often.
- tigershark 5y agoAs far I remember it started declining after they jumped on the ICO bandwagon. I didn’t really follow it that much after that..
- analognoise 5y agoYeah I stopped being interested as soon as they started talking about some dumb-ass coin.