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Re:Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros by nickpsecurity on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:18PM (#13973190)
You're focing a lot on just one point. Many people will sacrifice ultra-optimization or even optimization itself for productivity and flexibility. There's whole industries dedicated to it.

A cheat, though, would be extracting lowest-level form to C to leverage their compilers. Lots of languages did that.

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Re:Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros by throwaway7645 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:52AM (#13975526)
Agreed, but those languages aren't trying to be a "Full-Stack" language. With great power...blah blah you get the point ;)
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Re:Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros by nickpsecurity on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:07AM (#13976203)
PreScheme, Nim... Very powerful. Compiled to C for performance.
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Re:Red programming language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros by throwaway7645 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:18PM (#13982452)
Yea, kinda see what you're saying, but not 100% at least with Nim. It has a nice high level syntax, but no REPL shell, so not quite as high level as Red. Using on Windows also requires MinGW, which is kind of hacky.
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