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#4

This language just looks super cool. It's a shame it's sort of dead. Red (the spiritual successor) isn't ready for production yet.

It's been really active; you can hop on their gitter and get a feel for where development is at (the sorts of things that are getting attention). I wouldn't use it for a production load, but it's ready enough for writing internal or personal tooling in.

(And edit to say, I think some of the core team got pretty far into the blockchain rabbit hole at some point, so that may have derailed more mainstream efforts)

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#5
Looks really interesting. Anyone able to get this to work on Catalina? I'm getting "bad CPU type in executable" for both the PPC and Intel versions.

Re: REBOL Oneliners

#6

This language just looks super cool. It's a shame it's sort of dead. Red (the spiritual successor) isn't ready for production yet.

It's been really active; you can hop on their gitter and get a feel for where development is at (the sorts of things that are getting attention). I wouldn't use it for a production load, but it's ready enough for writing internal or personal tooling in. (And edit to say, I think some of the core team got pretty far into the blockchain rabbit hole at some point, so that may have derailed more mainstream efforts)

Red died the minute they announced they were going to launch their own crypto currency.

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#7

This language just looks super cool. It's a shame it's sort of dead. Red (the spiritual successor) isn't ready for production yet.

It believe it had a restrictive license which was a showstopper for a programming language. The current version is Apache(?), but it might be too late.

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#8
post #5

Looks really interesting. Anyone able to get this to work on Catalina? I'm getting "bad CPU type in executable" for both the PPC and Intel versions.

PPC definitely won't work on Catalina. PPC support was dropped from macOS years ago.

The Intel binary is 32-bit only. Catalina will only run 64-bit binaries.

    $ file rebol 
    rebol: Mach-O executable i386

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#9
post #5

Looks really interesting. Anyone able to get this to work on Catalina? I'm getting "bad CPU type in executable" for both the PPC and Intel versions.

Why would you even try the PPC version on Catalina? Snow Leopard (from 2009) was the last mac os to support ppc.

The intel version is i386. 32bit, which is not supported on Catalina either/

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#10

This language just looks super cool. It's a shame it's sort of dead. Red (the spiritual successor) isn't ready for production yet.

Red is pretty awesome. Last I tried it out, it was not ready for graphics work on Linux.
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