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Re:After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher se... by rlander on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:15PM (#11185733)
That was pretty much the idea behind Rebol IOS or X-Internet [0, 1]. I love the idea of a half-megabyte runtime, zero-install, cross-platform that can run on Linux, Android, HaikuOS, Windows and Mac.

Here's a Rebol one liner that opens a GUI, reads web page and sends it as email:

  view layout [u: field "[email protected]" h: field "http://" btn "Send" [send to-email u/text read to-url h/text alert "Sent"]]
Too bad it never caught on. Anyone who's ever dealt with JS will identify with Rebol's motto:

Most software systems have become needlessly complex. We rebel against that complexity, fighting it with the most powerful tool available, language itself.

[0] http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/the-rebol-ios...

[1] http://www.rebol.com/ios-intro.html

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Re:After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher se... by vmorgulis on Saturday February 27, 2016 @09:51AM (#11187206)
Rebol is not dead yet. I expect a new bounce with the Red language.
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