Red (Programming Language)

Name: Red (Programming Language)
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Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL.

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Free • Open Source

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Programming Language

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Cross Compilation
Functional Language
Lightweight
Compiles to native assembly code
Expressive
Homoiconic

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Top positive comment •Dec 20, 2021

Potentially a cross-compiling programming language that can more easily create cross-platform applications for desktop and mobile OSes.

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Developed by
Nenad Rakocevic
Licensing
Open Source (BSL-1.0) and Free product.
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- English
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5,498 Stars
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518 Open Issues
Updated Sep 7, 2024

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Red (Programming Language) was added to AlternativeTo by nohtml on Oct 2, 2014 and this page was last updated May 10, 2024. Red (Programming Language) is sometimes referred to as Red.

What is Red (Programming Language)?

Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL icon REBOL.

Main characteristics are:

-Functional, imperative and symbolic -Prototype-based object support -Homoiconic (Red is its own meta-language) -Both statically and JIT-compiled to native code -Concurrency and parallelism strong support (actors, parallel collections) -Low-level system programming abilities through the built-in Red/System DSL -High-level scripting and REPL console support -Highly embeddable -Low memory footprint, garbage collected -Low disk footprint (< 1MB)

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Basically the successor (almost same syntax, mostly backwards compatible with rebol)

Positive comment •Sep 1, 2016

• as an alternative to

REBOL