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It's very elegant! I can't fully grasp everything that's happening but the visual appearance of the syntax alone is interesting.
[0] https://github.com/red/code/blob/master/Scripts/clock.red
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I wrote a paper on REBOL back in college. It is very interesting, but the syntax is definitely weird. You might think of the function call syntax as being sort of Forth-like, but with the tokens in reverse order. So like a Lisp, but without required parentheses. e.g. in the example send friend@rebol.com read http://www.cnn.com `read` knows that it takes one argument, and `send` knows that it takes two, so this ends u…
but why, don't get this design choice at all.
Even things that are normally keywords and statements in other languages (like conditionals and loops) are actually just functions that conform to the exact same parsing rules.
red was terrible in 2018, and its terrible now - just tried to compile hello world and it takes 36 seconds https://github.com/red/red/issues/5615
Go compiles massive codebases in that time. V can recompile itself probably 2-3x in that time. I don't take any new language seriously unless it's memory safe, free of UB, able to interoperate with what already exists including optional shared libraries (because static linking the world every time in everything is memory and disk wasteful), and assists formal proofs of correctness. Otherwise, what already exists seem…
I figured they were cooked when they started doing weird cryptocurrency-related stuff. I really hope they get to their 1.0 release someday.
The website looks like 2013 and much of the content is as well. There's a GitHub repo that I couldn't find from the website: https://github.com/red/red
The website has posts from 2025:
https://www.red-lang.org/2025/04/multiple-monitors-support.h...
Unless you mean the theme, thats probably just a standard Google Blogger/Blogspot theme, which has been around for 25 years.
Languages that encourage making DSLs are a two-edged sword. On the one hand, you get to make a language that is more clear and fine-tuned to your use-case. On the other, you have an ad-hoc language with no support that you have to maintain along with the documentation (considering that you can't expect anyone else to know the DSL ahead of time). As I've gotten older, I've determined that well-designed APIs in a well-…
Pretty nonsensical statement. We have that for 50 years. Common Lisp, for example.
This is like the only programming language I could never learn. I just don't understand anything and I can't build any mental model of what's going on behind the hood
>This is like the only programming language I could never learn. Wait till you hear of Urbit and see this: https://developers.urbit.org/overview/nock
This is a successor to REBOL[0], designed by Carl Sassenrath[1] who designed the Amiga kernel. I've looked it a few times over the years. It's neat. I've never written a single line of it, though. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sassenrath
I used it once to build a simple web scraper and image downloader, and it worked really great for that. It was right in the wheelhouse for the language. (That was REBOL, not RED, and many years ago.) Honestly I'd just do it in Python, now, even though it's not as interesting.