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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by jcrites on Saturday March 26, 2016 @04:14AM (#11364863)
Rebol has always interested me, as a person that follows programming languages. There seems to be a spark of insight to it. I wasn't aware that there were free and open source languages inspired by it (or made by its author), nor had I heard about Red. I'm impressed by what I've seen so far and am going to have to take a closer look!

I have suspected that a well-enough designed programming language could subsume many programming tasks that are currently different languages or data formats. There are so many. It looks like Red is attempting to tackle that problem directly - I'm curious what headway can be made.

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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by mhd on Saturday March 26, 2016 @06:15AM (#11365120)
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

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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by draegtun on Saturday March 26, 2016 @07:14AM (#11365242)
For Rebol 3 GUI binaries / source code go to Atronix Rebol - http://www.atronixengineering.com/downloads/

For latest community development see Ren/C - https://github.com/metaeducation/ren-c

For latest bugs/sugs see - https://github.com/rebol/rebol-issues

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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by nickpsecurity on Saturday March 26, 2016 @11:48AM (#11366054)
"If we're talking about Amiga almuni projects, DragonFlyBSD seems to be the healthier one."

I've never heard it referenced in connection to Amiga. How is it related?

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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by hansjorg on Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:15PM (#11366451)
It was started by Matthew Dillon, known for several prominent pieces of Amiga software, like the DICE C compiler.

I've never used it, but supposedly several DragonFly features were inspired by AmigaOS.

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Re:Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System by nickpsecurity on Sunday March 27, 2016 @12:58PM (#11370574)
It's here in the "Not a microkernel" section:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=766375

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