oldes

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   by oldes 2mo ago

   Yes. R3 is written in C and Rebol. Red is so far using Rebol2 to be compiled and Red for mezzanine code. Main difference is that there is a GUI available in Red. That is not available in R3 yet (at least not in my version). There was a GUI
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   by oldes 2mo ago

   As I understand it, there were some investments involved in the development of Rebol2, so it was not possible to release its code. Instead, Carl started Rebol3 as a rewrite. It was first divided into a closed Core library and an open-source
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   by oldes 3mo ago

   The only fiasco with Rebol3, as I see it, is that everybody was asking for the language to be open-sourced, and when it finally happened, almost nobody was willing to take on the responsibility of maintaining it once Carl left, and almost t
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   by oldes 4mo ago

   Rebol is not dead. It's just invisible to the mainstream. There was a new release (3.22) last week.