> it’s still quite new and hasn’t reached 1.0
According to the main page [0] the project was unveiled 6 years ago. For comparison Rust (a random example) started 7 years ago [1] but compare results for "Rust" and "Red/Rebol" on Algolia [2] (sorry no deep links). It's clear Red is niche.
I'm not writing it off. It's definitely one of most interesting languages and runtimes but it's super hard to capture people's attention nowadays when you don't have support of large companies (Go, Rust, .NET).
[0]: http://www.red-lang.org/search?updated-max=2011-03-29T15:38:...
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
Re:Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer
by spinningarrow on Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:39AM
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Hmm, you're right. I didn't realise it was 6 years old!
Re:Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer
by throwaway7645 on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:07AM
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Yea, sorry bout that. Red isn't 1.0 yet and I have very high hopes for it. I meant just Rebol (ancestor of Red) in my earlier post and corrected it.
Is that true of Red? I was playing with it the other day and it looked really promising, and I was under the impression that it’s still quite new and hasn’t reached 1.0 (my point is that it might not be at a stage where we can write it off).