Red is like a modernized Rebol, so if you learn Rebol, you have (mostly) learnt Red too. Red doesn't constrain the anti-complexity fight to the language itself

Red is like a modernized Rebol, so if you learn Rebol, you have (mostly) learnt Red too. Red doesn't constrain the anti-complexity fight to the language itself, though. It can already set you free from the "mother of all bloatwares", the GNU compiler toolchain and the "inherently insecure" C language. Simply (hence a bit inaccurately) put: You can write programs with the same logic and concepts as C but with Rebol syntax. It's good because it has a simpler&less syntactic sugar and allows unicode words as identifiers. Such a "source code" is valid Rebol DATA too, so it's easy to introspect, transform, analyze, decorate it, you don't have to parse it as string... You can compile - for example - a Linux ELF executable for the ARM processor on an x86 Windows machine and all you need is: 1, the ~300kiloBYTE rebol.exe (just 1 file!) http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v278/rebol-core-278-3-1.exe http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v278/rebol-core-278-3-1.exe 2, the ~400kiloBYTE https://github.com/dockimbel/Red/archive/master.zip https://github.com/dockimbel/Red/archive/master.zip (from which the compiler is ~100 script files...) NO MORE automake/autoconf coming from packages depending on m4, make, awk, sed, tr, etc and of course "need" a package manager which depends on perl/python/ruby and their "standard libraries" which alone are stored as a sea of small files, theeeen u need GCC with the ocean of .h files also packaged as *-dev packages coming with their meta info in their own files, etc etc... Feel the contrast? So Red is really super-cool, but for now it still depends on the ultra-small Rebol binary...