rebol

*Idly checks out where it's at* :( Last modified March 2014: https://github.com/rebol/rebol And that's still just REBOL/Core, not REBOL/View.

Just to clarify it's Rebol 2 (Core/etc) that is closed source. Rebol 3 is open-sourced along with the GUI (R3-GUI).... * https://github.com/rebol/rebol * https://github.com/metaeducation/ren-c (community fork) * https://github.com/zsx/r3-gui (Atronix fork)

Rebol itself was open sourced a while ago, but IIRC that didn't include the GUI system, and few third parties seem to be interested. Last update to the github repo [1] was two years ago… If we're talking about Amiga almuni projects, DragonFlyBSD seems to be the healthier one. [1] https://github.com/rebol/rebol

Normal view of bulletin board: http://www.digicamsoft.com/cgi-bin/rebelBB.cgi Rebol Github: https://github.com/rebol/rebol

Not dead but development as become fragmented. The main Rebol repo (https://github.com/rebol/rebol) keeps getting blocked due to a lack of stewardship :( At some point this will be fixed. As a stop gap Rebolsources was created and was used by community to filter changes through to main repo. See https://github.com/rebolsource/r3 & http://rebolsource.net/ There are two other versions maintained by two commercial entities: * Saphiron - http://development.saphirion.com/ * Atronix Engineering - http://atronixengineering.com/ Both are fixing/improving Rebol 3 whilst also developing the R3-GUI (Saphiron work on Windows version while Atronix ported it to Linux desktop). Unfortunately the Saphiron development isn't kept public so the repo (https://github.com/saphirion/saphir) isn't up-to-date. Atronix is probably the best place to look at this

Huh? Rebol 3 ("alpha version") is open-sourced under Apache 2.0 license; most recent commit is dated Mar 04 2014; not quite yesterday, but certainly not "over a year ago". See: https://github.com/rebol/rebol As to Red, it is a totally separate project, kinda rewrite from scratch of Rebol (started when Rebol 3 was still closed source and seemed dead), and although still not complete, looks very lively: https://github.com/red/red -- see also the pretty status/completion tracking graphs for Red at: http://www.red-lang.org/p/roadmap.html

> The desktop GUI is stuck in the 80s and as far as I know even that isn't an option for mobile. It's a shame that REBOL was open sourced a decade and a half too late. Back when Perl was still king of scripting languages and Python/Ruby etc. hadn't taken over for Perl yet, REBOL could have had success. The community was fun and creative and the implementation seemed like it would be small and able to be improved through open source. Just checked, and the repository hasn't had a checkin for 7 months: https://github.com/rebol/rebol

Yes that's correct. Atronix efforts have been towards producing 64-bit versions + the Linux GUI from the Saphiron code base (which was 32-bit and Windows GUI). Here's the Atronix announcement - http://rebol.info/altme/105/announce#msg0688 I believe you can consider this as the official build for Rebol3 View/GUI because Saphiron took over the RebGUI/R3-GUI project from Rebol Technologies. But yes some of the Rebol 3 Core stuff that Saphiron/Altronix have done do need merging back into main open source core [1], which itself as moved on from the Saphir codebase (Saphiron Rebol build) [2]. [1] - https://github.com/rebol/rebol [2] - https://github.com/saphirion/saphir Also see Rebolsource repo where lot of the community changes go before merging back into [1]. Ref: https://github.com/rebolsource/r3 | http://www.rebolsource.net PS. I know t

apache licence. https://github.com/rebol/r3/blob/master/LICENSE isn't that significantly more free than rebol in the past? edit: yes, the original rebol licence didn't allow modification. http://www.rebol.com/license.html

And it's open-sourced now... https://github.com/rebol/r3

Repo: https://github.com/rebol/r3