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Red Lang goes blockchain
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#22God! Enough! At this point any announcement with "blockchain" should turn any informed person off of the whole project. Checking out Red was on my roadmap and now it's firmly not.
Just because you hate blockchain tech doesn't mean the rest of the world should pass up free money. Also, "any informed person" is the No True Scotsman fallacy. I'm informed and I don't feel negatively just because it's blockchain.
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#23Its like a traditional ICO, but the code is already written. Interesting approach
Not really:
> We are at the design stage, the first alpha (prototype) is planned for end of Q1 2018.
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#24God! Enough! At this point any announcement with "blockchain" should turn any informed person off of the whole project. Checking out Red was on my roadmap and now it's firmly not.
Just because you hate blockchain tech doesn't mean the rest of the world should pass up free money. Also, "any informed person" is the No True Scotsman fallacy. I'm informed and I don't feel negatively just because it's blockchain.
I don’t think you know how HN works. If the word “blockchain” doesn’t make you irrationally angry, this isn’t the forum for you.
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#25Curious - How is Red sustained, who currently supports it? Or what does the roadmap look like for this to be a five-year sustainable project? Edit: They seem to address this down in the blog post, with the creation of a RCT token. What is the incentive for a potential backer to buy this token?
> What is the incentive for a potential backer to buy this token?
I would imagine to support the developers.
They also claim it might be used as gas on the blockchain in the future so if you want to run a dapp you will need it.
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#26God! Enough! At this point any announcement with "blockchain" should turn any informed person off of the whole project. Checking out Red was on my roadmap and now it's firmly not.
You certainly should check Red anyway. It is still the same language as yesterday, before any "blockchain" announcement. No buzzword can change the great design.
It's not though. This announcement shows the direction that those in charge of Red plan to take it.
If you think that's a stupid direction, then that should influence your decision to invest any time in learning or building upon that language.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You certainly should check Red anyway. It is still the same language as yesterday, before any "blockchain" announcement. No buzzword can change the great design.
It's not though. This announcement shows the direction that those in charge of Red plan to take it. If you think that's a stupid direction, then that should influence your decision to invest any time in learning or building upon that language.
Can you clarify how you see that direction?
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#28God! Enough! At this point any announcement with "blockchain" should turn any informed person off of the whole project. Checking out Red was on my roadmap and now it's firmly not.
I’m with you about blockchain announcements, but this looks like it’s actually appropriate.
From the linked page: “Such dialect will compile to the Ethereum VM (EVM) bytecode directly as first target, and more backends will be added later to support other chains, like NEO. ”
That seems significant to me.
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#30I just bet myself 5:95 odds (lose means donate directly to the org - they just missed out on 12.5k) that there would be only rent-seeking or “voting” in the “token use cases”. These guys don’t know what they don’t know.
Also, HA HA HA. I used to feel bad for the victims but now I think they deserve it.