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Rebol is seriously cool and criminally overlooked on HN. Unlike TCL, it didn't survive to the same extent. There is the whole Red effort (very cool), but I'm no
by 7thaccount 5y ago
Rebol is seriously cool and criminally overlooked on HN. Unlike TCL, it didn't survive to the same extent. There is the whole Red effort (very cool), but I'm not sure if they'll get there. I wish them the best of luck though.
- johnisgood 5y agoYeah, so do I. I mentioned in my other comment that I do not use it because of lack of 64-bit support and whatnot. If they do get there, and I could replace my Rebol 3 programs with Red, then I will switch to it. As for Rebol 3, I use https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol3 https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol3. For what it is worth, people ought to check out the Rebol cookbook. It is full of amazing stuff. So easy to implement somewhat complicated things. I am seriously wondering why it is not more popular. I would say a lot has to do with the fact that it has been open sourced too late (should have been open to begin with, IMO), and that there are too many different, but somewhat alike implementations[1]. It is confusing to a newcomer. They do not know what to use, why, and if it actually is under active development and will continue to be. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31510930/rebol3-what-is-the-difference-between-the-different-branches https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31510930/rebol3-what-is-...
- johnisgood 5y agoSo I just dived in to the Rebol cookbook myself, and I came across Rebol 3 implementations of some of the goodies from there that are originally written in Rebol. For example I stumbled upon https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/rebol-cr-auth/ https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/rebol-cr-auth/ and https://gist.github.com/gchiu/5288312 https://gist.github.com/gchiu/5288312. They are both quite cool. It truly does make me love Rebol even more!