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bsrkf·May 20, 2025

When I look at a programming language site, especially for a "new" language, I want a quick way to navigate to a reasonably sized decent code sample, ideally documented, showing off significant language features, idiomatic syntax and usage patterns etc... Sites which do this well (just from the top of my head): https://odin-lang.org/ immediate code sample visible "See the Full Demo" "See More Examples" https://ziglang.org/ immediate code sample scroll down a bit, "More Code Samples" Here on red-lang.org... I can barely find a consecutive meaningful chunk of code... ? "Getting Started" Nope "Documentation" Nope "Official Documentation" link to github https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/SUMMARY.adoc "Home" merely a chronologically sorted blog newest entry links to 50 line "script" by chan

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ce showing off multi-monitor support (doesn't seem like a super helpful sample) ?

In Red Programming Language

samatman·Oct 5, 2024

My impression was a rather shallow one, between the language getting better and my understanding why it looks and acts the way it does, I'd say my change of heart is 20% the former and 80% the latter. The reasons I think something new would do well are things Tcl can't fix. Examples: leading zero octal, 0 is false, 1 is true, and it just... Tcl has a face only a mother could love. I've been interested in Red for years now without trying it out. It's very high-concept and sort of... totalizing? in a way which seems maybe unfocused. It is admittedly quite clean on the page, and there are some solid ideas there, one of these days I'll take it for a drive. One quibble is they need to stop punting to Rebol and write native documentation, being told that Red is "90% compatible" with another language no one uses, and getting shelled out to the

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documentation of that language, is not a great way to keep the funnel intact. But you have to, this is where the "official documentation" link sends you: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/SUMMARY.adoc That, combined with the "Red is all things to all people!" messaging, gives me the (perhaps unfair) impression that I would run into dusty corners and sharp edges fairly quickly if I tried to cash in the Ultimate Programming Language promise. Just finish up the docs, folks. Only have to do it once. I don't think it fits the new command language vision, however, because bare words are evaluated. In Tcl, the first word is special, and it's a command, everything else is strings unless you want to substitute in another string (or what have you). That strikes me as essential for this niche, notably this is how shell works and it's tough to imagine a usable shell which didn't work that way. But talk is cheap and a language implementation is very, very expensive. If I needed to add a command language to a program, I'd use Tcl and call it a day.

In Why I Like Tcl

carapace·Jul 13, 2022

Joy (implemented in Prolog) could tick some of these boxes. > window2 is an optimized version of window1 and should have the same outputs for every input. I should be able to encode that in the language, and have the tooling generate checks showing the two are the same, and also run benchmarks testing if the optimized version actually is faster. That should be possible with Joy, it's certainly something I want to explore. The interesting semantic relationships are those that let the machine automatically deduce optimizations > I also like the idea of modifying function definitions at runtime. I have these visions/nightmares of programs that take other programs as input and then let me run experiments on how the program behaves under certain changes to the source code. I want to write metaprograms dammit Lotta metaprogramming in Joy. Many

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functions work by building new functions and running them, it's a natural idiom in Joy. - - - - > A language designed around having first-class GUI support Red? ( https://www.red-lang.org/ ) > Visual Interface Dialect ... is a dialect of Red, providing the simplest possible way to specify graphic components with their properties, layouts and even event handlers. VID code is compiled at runtime to a tree of faces suitable for displaying. https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/gui.adoc > You can’t work with strings, json, sets, or hash maps very well, date manipulation is terrible, you can barely do combinatorics problems, etc etc etc. I want a language that’s terse for everything. That also sounds like Red.

In Six programming languages I’d like to see

9214·May 28, 2021

> They are well funded. Rebol Technologies went bankrupt, and Rebol is de-facto dead since more than a decade; Red barely manages to get by thanks to a recent crypto spike. > I would say the languages are very different in the sense that Beads is clearly aimed at graphical interactive software. So is Red with it's native GUI engine. [1] > Red exists as a systems programming language, a variant customized for building crypto contracts, and then as a general purpose language. "Domain-specific languages" is the term you are looking for. > They are so different that it is hard to compare. Both share the same goal of replacing modern software practices with biased, batteries-included toolchain, varying only in implementation. > Red being a concatenative language has more in common with FORTH than Algol. Red is not concatenative in any sense o

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f the word, nor any other language in Rebol family that I know of. [1]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/view.adoc

In Beads: Computer language and toolchain

carapace·Feb 26, 2021

> What if a simpler programming language had first-class representations of a lot more than strings and arrays? Red lang? > Where most languages have 6-8 base datatypes, Red has almost 50. https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/datatypes.adoc

In One Way to Represent Things

panic·Feb 25, 2021

This makes me think of the Red programming language and its many builtin datatypes: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/datatypes.adoc

In One Way to Represent Things

9214·Oct 5, 2020

Blocks in Rebol are not a mere "stuff" delineated by square brackets. Rather, it's a heterogeneous container that can hold first-class values and represent both code and data (homoiconic property), thus serving as a base for the syntactically-rich data format. It also has a well-defined model [1] within the language, and, as such, can be freely operated upon at the run-time. On a grand scale of language design, blocks form a concrete-syntax tree that can be derived from (or converted to) both textual [2] and serialized binary [3] forms. Moreso, Rebol's syntax was in fact inspired by Logo. So, the relation between Arturo and Rebol seems to be very superficial; reminds me of Spry [4] that claims to be Rebol-like but is in fact an opinionated Smalltalk. [1]: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html [2]: https://pointillistic.com/ren

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/ [3]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc [4]: http://sprylang.se/

In Arturo programming language and Stack-based VM in Nim

9214·Oct 4, 2020

The basic premise (The friendly data format for human & machine) instantly reminded me of Red language [1], which, by the virtue of homoiconicity, is also its own data format (both textual and binary [2]) with 50 datatypes, many with several unique literal forms: date: 4-Oct-2020 4/11/20 time: 13:04:07 url: https://concise-encoding.org email: kstenerud@gmail.com ref: @kstenerud tag: <div color="red"> integer: 123 float: 123.45 1.#NaN -1.#INF pair: 67x89 percent: 9000% money: USD$0.50 binary: #{deadbeef} 2#{00101101} container: [#hashtag "string" %file.ext #(key value)] ... [1]: https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html [2]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc

In Show HN: Concise Encoding – a friendly data format for human and machine