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by emmanueloga_
696 days ago
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Q for Rye's author: Since Rye is heavily inspired by Rebol, I wonder if you had a chance to take a look at Red [1] and what are your thoughts about it. Red looks really cool and capable, but it feels so niche/obscure and has such a small community that feels unpractical to use. -- 1: https://www.red-lang.org/ |
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Red also improved on Rebol 2 a lot and is a proper Rebol successor. It was started by a very productive and prominent Rebol developer, that I greatly appreciate. The only problem I see with it is that maybe they were too ambitious. They started with their own low level language (compiler) Red/system, and out of that built Red interpreter. They are really doing things as they should be done I think, but it's taking quite a lot of time.
Red, like in a way Rebol has a lot of focus on GUI and I needed a language for backend development. I was waiting for their "IO branch" for years, it was hard for me to contribute in a concrete way, since their approach was quite low level and at around 2018 started making a simple Rebol like interpreter in Go, because Go is great on the backend and I just wanted something that works, hence the higher level language than C/C++, that's now Rye.
Red is still moving forward, their community is mostly on gitter I think. It is small, but so was Rebol's and it's much bigger than Rye's, which doesn't really have a community yet :).