> The desktop GUI is stuck in the 80s and as far as I know even that isn't an option for mobile.

It's a shame that REBOL was open sourced a decade and a half too late. Back when Perl was still king of scripting languages and Python/Ruby etc. hadn't taken over for Perl yet, REBOL could have had success. The community was fun and creative and the implementation seemed like it would be small and able to be improved through open source.

Just checked, and the repository hasn't had a checkin for 7 months:

https://github.com/rebol/rebol

I believe REBOL and Red shouldn't be confused. The Red project seems to be going on quite lively, with the most recent commit some 9 days ago at the time I'm writing this (see https://github.com/red/red ). That said, it's still not fully complete, but it does most certainly have more modern goals than REBOL -- see e.g. the Roadmap Status page (http://www.red-lang.org/p/roadmap.html) for information about Android bridge (currently reported "90% complete", look for it at the bottom of the page).

Thankfully R3-GUI as dragged the Rebol desktop out of the 80's :)

And there are alpha versions that run on Android - http://rebol.informe.com/blog/2013/04/15/rebol-3-on-android/

But yes still got some way to go. Good news is that there are versions for Windows & Linux - http://atronixengineering.com/downloads.html

I was intrigued by the fact that it's inspired by Self, Lisp and Forth. It seems like a weird mixture of languages all of which are generally considered well designed.