greggirwin

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by greggirwin 7y ago
Yes.
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by greggirwin 7y ago
I'm part of Team Red, though I only speak for myself here. TL;DR -- Tools and infrastructure It's true that people don't pay for languages, but did they ever? Mostly, people have paid for tools. Tools that help them solve pro
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by greggirwin 7y ago
The question is what "browser" means. If viewing data connected by hyperlinks is the goal, that's pretty easy. Rebol's approach to X-Net (Executable Internet) apps is very different, with the goal of being a way to share
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by greggirwin 7y ago
I use Red (full disclosure, I'm on the team), and have used Rebol (Red's direct ancestor) since 2001. When I find something that works, I stick with it, though I also keep an eye out for new things. Red's heritage comes from
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by greggirwin 7y ago
A message box is not the same as a dialog with user controls.
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by greggirwin 7y ago
Be sure to go to the 7-GUIs web site to link to other code examples. They aren't all in the main repo anymore it seems.
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by greggirwin 7y ago
Red and Rebol already came up, which is what I answered with, to a question on Quora a couple years ago: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-using-a-GUI-in-most-of-all-prog... In that answer I link to the 7 GUIs project from Eugen
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by greggirwin 8y ago
Most responses so far support your view that it's difficult to get up and running. So many pieces and parts, which doesn't just mean getting an MVDE up and running, but learning and using all those tools, libraries, polyglot-based
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by greggirwin 8y ago
As has been noted by others, we have never "had a go" at Clojure. Language designers and the people who build them have our respect, even if our choices differ. If we criticize them (and we do at times, being human, and thinking w
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by greggirwin 8y ago
@hjek, as @dockimbel noted, and we have never concealed, Red was bootstrapped using Rebol. Doc's stats break things down pretty well, but there's another point to be made. Red is ~95% Rebol compatible. This is a very important det
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by greggirwin 8y ago
Dimitri, you've obviously looked into Red in some depth, which is appreciated. And your comments and criticisms have been heard. It's easy for miscommunication to occur in chat like this, so we can probably close this particular t
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by greggirwin 8y ago
Understood, so you know there was a reason for branching out into the blockchain space, as there's a real need for better langs there, and less competition, which leads to more visibility in an area that his hot technology. For the pro
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by greggirwin 8y ago
But that was a very important choice. Do you understand why?
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by greggirwin 8y ago
A noted, it's easy to start, but also powerful. Logo was the same. It was most well known for the turtle, but it was really Lisp, and Brian Harvey (Berkeley CS Prof) wrote a great 3-volume series called Computer Science Logo Style. Red
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by greggirwin 8y ago
There are a lot of topics here now, which is great, and the opening question about what to make of Red is a good one. The problem in answering it is the same problem we have when pitching it to people: it's hard to sum up. Is there a c
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by greggirwin 8y ago
Good feedback. Thanks.
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by greggirwin 8y ago
We do try to maintain a high standard of civility.
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by greggirwin 8y ago
This came up not long ago, and we have to define "cross platform" to say whether Red meets the criteria. Red does have a cross platform GUI system, though it is only fully implemented on MacOS and Windows currently. We don'
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by greggirwin 8y ago
Creating a dialect is pretty easy, though it's a broad term, so not ALL are easy to create. :^) An environment is an entirely different beast, but @9214 addressed that already as well. The more you leverage core features, the more you
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by greggirwin 8y ago
If you read the old blog entries about why it was done, do you still feel that way?
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by greggirwin 8y ago
Development is far from haphazard, but we're always open to examples of how other projects we can learn from, as long as it's a fair comparison and the resource and organization aspects align enough that we can leverage things we
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by greggirwin 9y ago
> I would have expected recent news to tie into the ICO promises Please read the blog entry again. It specifically says: > Those features were implemented in about a month and half in August/September 2017. We have delayed the c
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by greggirwin 9y ago
https://www.red-lang.org/2018/01/red-here-we-go.html shows the complete breakdown of token distribution, and is where the data is pulled from in the above script demo. In a very real sense, we can't think of
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by greggirwin 9y ago
Cool. I'll check those out.
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by greggirwin 9y ago
Henry, did you use Gunther Rademacher's RR diagram generator? Best of luck with {mark}.
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by greggirwin 9y ago
Or languages whose strength is in building other languages.
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by greggirwin 9y ago
Yes indeed. He's a great guy.
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by greggirwin 9y ago
I've made a living using Rebol for 16 years, with other things when I have to. :^)
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by greggirwin 9y ago
Cross platform for Windows and Mac are there today. "Red" does make searches tough, we know. Red currently has backers, and Linux GUI hasn't been on their priority list. Android will come before Linux, and is far along alread
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by greggirwin 9y ago
From what has been said publicly, the blockchain sub-project will help raise funds to fuel development in the near term. Long term sustainability, and value, will come from building products, services, and tools.

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