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by creadee 4215 days ago
> The future of programming should be one language for all layers of the stack, from the database to the model to the UI.

http://www.red-lang.org/ (a Rebol-like language) promises to do that. And perhaps right down to the OS (if I've understood it correctly).
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draegtun 4211 days ago
Yep... Red can compiled down to Red/System or be interpreted (with JIT). Red/System can be compiled down to machine code, bytecode (for select VMs) and I believe Javascript.

Red claims to be the world’s first full-stack language - http://www.red-lang.org/p/contributions.html

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david927 4210 days ago
The problem is that it's still letting hardware dictate the terms. There should be a meeting of the two: the VM.

Anything that compiles to assembly is doomed to be a reheating of C leftovers.

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draegtun 4209 days ago
> Anything that compiles to assembly is doomed to be a reheating of C leftovers.

Thats what Red/System is aiming at, ie. an alternative to C - http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs-light.html#secti...

PS. Hmmm... who/why downvoted my parent comment? The comment is factually correct, non-opinionated and with no added embellishments :(

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