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by throwaway7645 3228 days ago
As awesome as Lazarus appears to be here, Rebol is even more amazing in my opinion. There is no designer, but the GUI DSL is mind bending. Red is a Rebol inspired language that is also tiny with a compiler as well so you can build a nice cross-platform-native GUI and distribute it as a tiny executable (~1.5 MB). You can see the GUI stuff for both Rebol and Red. There's a YouTube video by Nick Antonnacio (spelling) that shows him building something like 40 GUI apps in an hour ranging from email apps to games like tic-tac-toe and snake...it was pretty crazy to see the first time.

I'm checking out Lazarus currently.
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hdhzy 3228 days ago
Do you mean this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D50XULVZaYY ? Looks nice!
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throwaway7645 3228 days ago
That one and this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5Fzv6DP0I

That guy can build some simple apps FAST! It helps that Rebol has built-ins for everything.

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hdhzy 3227 days ago
Very cool, the examples that he builds are very similar to what I've built when I stated in Delphi (simple chats, word processors, music players) but to course Rebol is much more concise. I wish the controls would look more "native". Currently they look like Windows 3.11. Also... Downloading code over plain HTTP? Not good idea...

For people that are interested, here's a free book: http://www.lulu.com/shop/olivier-auverlot-and-peter-william-...

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throwaway7645 3227 days ago
The new language Red is 98% Rebol compatible and uses native GUI feel. If only it'll get finished and reach 1.0. Still a bit left on the roadmap.
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hdhzy 3226 days ago
Sounds good. Would you recommend learning Rebol and then Red or just forget about Rebol and start with Red? Not 1.0 means it's not production ready?
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