Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by garyclarke27 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:50AM
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Iniatly I was excited by Red’s expressiveness, ease of use and cross platform capability, but was very disappointed to find it lacks a driver for PostgreSQL.
This for me is critical and surprising omission, especially considering that the main developer of Red - Nenad Rakocevic - wrote a Postgres driver for Rebol??
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Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by 9214 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @12:01PM
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Lack of drivers and such is due to the fact that full I/O support is not yet implemented, but planned. See:
Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by onetom on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @05:05AM
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In the past, when I was writing web scrapers and I wanted to put the results into a database, I was just using the command-line interface for the database via the Rebol `CALL` function.
It was a couple of lines to create a `SELECT` and `INSERT` function to abstract this detail away...
If you are really curious about Red, you should give this approach a try and in case it's not performant enough for you, then you can put this option on hold until Red has proper I/O support.