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Re:Consider Rexx for Scripting (2022) by woodruffw on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @02:40PM (#42391907)
Are the open source implementations of Rexx widely adopted? This article highlights them, but I don't think I've ever run across them. It would be interesting to hear about where these have been adopted, relative to other scripting languages that fill a similar niche (presumably mostly Python, Perl, and sh)?

(Apropos of nothing else, it seems worth noting that Rexx is a product within IBM's suite and that this website appears to be owned by Red Hat, now an IBM subsidiary.)

Re:Consider Rexx for Scripting (2022) by mdaniel on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:42PM (#42392726)
I've found the GitHub topics to be helpful for "taking the pulse" type stuff https://github.com/topics/rexx or, in a more "shotgun" approach, finding repos that contain linguist-detected code https://github.com/search?q=language%3Arexx&type=repositorie...