Sneak peek at Red on Android • Hacker News Board

Re: Sneak peek at Red on Android

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Post by 9214 » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 6:20 PM UTC

oregontechninja wrote: post #9

9214 wrote: post #7

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If you know C - all it takes to start with R/S is to read language specs [1]. What specific problems do you have with compilation? [1] : https://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs.html

Just compiling the file. That's what I'm having trouble with. Is it the same method as normal Red scripts? Is there a compiler flag I need, or just the opening Red/System [] in the source? That's the part that is rough for me. Just a simple Red/System vs Red hello world (including compiler instructions) would be of great help.

Uhm...

Red:

    Red []
    print "hello world"

Red/System:

    Red/System []
    print "hello world"

Both are compiled with ./red -c file. "Rough", you say?

Re: Sneak peek at Red on Android

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Post by greggirwin » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 7:30 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #8

dockimbel wrote: post #4

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Thanks for those answers. Let me add something for helping the visually impaired who have troubles reading the Red blog. Here is a simple Red script to retrieve information from the Red blog, then calculate and display (with a color fade-in effect) the upper bound result of the RED tokens sales: Red [] page: read https://www.red-lang.org/2018/01/red-here-we-go.html parse page [ thru "Private investors" thru "(" copy…

I assume "visually impaired" was a little jab at me, well, I must be really blind, because having read the blog posts it's still unclear to me how many tokens were sold and how much money was raised.

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 "money raised" in terms of a country's legal tender (what cryptos call 'fiat currency'). Remember, cryptocurrencies have no jurisdiction. You can see how much ETH was raised, but what that really tells you, we hope, is how much investment interest there was, based on the technology backing the project.

Re: Sneak peek at Red on Android

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Post by greggirwin » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 7:35 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #2

I'm a little confused about Red, which is a language I've been keeping an eye on for a while. They seem to be trying to target practically every type of development on every platform, with an incomplete language and a very small (no?) team. Also, recently there was an odd ICO tangent, where it's unclear how much money they raised. It smelled a bit opportunistic to me, and I would have expected recent news to tie into…

> 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 continuation of that work, as we need to focus our resources on higher priority tasks for now, like Red/C3 and full I/O support.

If you also read https://www.red-lang.org/2018/03/roadmap-updates.html, it should clarify exactly where we are and where we're headed.

Re: Sneak peek at Red on Android

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Post by hostilefork » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 10:06 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #8

dockimbel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for those answers. Let me add something for helping the visually impaired who have troubles reading the Red blog. Here is a simple Red script to retrieve information from the Red blog, then calculate and display (with a color fade-in effect) the upper bound result of the RED tokens sales: Red [] page: read https://www.red-lang.org/2018/01/red-here-we-go.html parse page [ thru "Private investors" thru "(" copy…

I assume "visually impaired" was a little jab at me, well, I must be really blind, because having read the blog posts it's still unclear to me how many tokens were sold and how much money was raised.

The post was about Android support. Why do you care how much the ICO did or didn't make?

Let's say it made money/ETH--and even if a program in the language can print out a message saying it did. What does this have to do with your assessment of the technology, or its completeness or incompleteness?