[7thaccount]

Same. I was regularly following it until they started talking about an ICO and began focusing too much on making a dialect for block chain stuff.

The idea between having the red system language, regular scripting language, cross platform gui, and native executables was really cool though. I remember being interested back in ~2015, so my question is...what's going on as it's been a decade. I know the project is crazy ambitious of course, but how close are we to where this is at a stage where most would consider it production worthy.

[troupo]

IIRC think their original roadmap had 1.0 around 2020. And that was going to include everything, including async written from scratch in a language where nothing was made for async.

Then the roadmap slipped, and then never mentioned again.

But I haven't looked at the language or discussions around it for a long while now.

Edit: found some old discussion here. In 2018 they were at version 0.6.4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18864840

In 2025 they are at version 0.6.6: https://github.com/red/red/releases

[LkpPo]

For me, it even went off the rails before, when Nenad went to China because he was able to raise funds for the project. But he hadn't anticipated that he would be in charge and not the other way around. The situation seems to suit him perfectly. I don't think Red has any future at this point. In any case, the roadmap has always been stratospheric.

[em-bee]

can you elaborate what you mean by not anticipating that he would be in charge?

btw, i met him in beijing while he was there.

[LkpPo]

That he would not have been able to do what he hoped to do to meet other demands of his creditors. Pure speculation.