Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
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Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
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Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#2I always wondered why there has been no real successor to VB. This looks promising!
Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#3I really miss an awesome cross-platform GUI. Electron is awesome, but bloated.
Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#4Iniatly I was excited by Red’s expressiveness, ease of use and cross platform capability, but was very disappointed to find it lacks a driver for PostgreSQL.
This for me is critical and surprising omission, especially considering that the main developer of Red - Nenad Rakocevic - wrote a Postgres driver for Rebol??
Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#5I always wondered why there has been no real successor to VB. This looks promising!
The syntax of Rebol, its predecessor, was an inspiration for the Mathematica language.
Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#6I really miss an awesome cross-platform GUI. Electron is awesome, but bloated.
Agreed. But Electrcn seems to be the only option these days.
Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#7Iniatly I was excited by Red’s expressiveness, ease of use and cross platform capability, but was very disappointed to find it lacks a driver for PostgreSQL. This for me is critical and surprising omission, especially considering that the main developer of Red - Nenad Rakocevic - wrote a Postgres driver for Rebol??
Lack of drivers and such is due to the fact that full I/O support is not yet implemented, but planned. See:
Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#8In case someone wants to ask specific questions about Red, you can drop in gitter chat and say "Hi":
Re: Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
#9I really miss an awesome cross-platform GUI. Electron is awesome, but bloated.
Agreed. But Electrcn seems to be the only option these days.
Really? It seems like there are a plethora of options. See an endless list at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376242