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Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

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95 points Levitating | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 03:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bronlund ◴[31 Aug 25 11:37 UTC] No.45082404[source]▶
I remember being really impressed by REBOL, I thought it was a really cool language and I did make some small tools with it. To bad greed ruined it for everybody.
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fuzztester ◴[31 Aug 25 13:11 UTC] No.45082891[source]▶
how did greed ruin it?

I had tried it out a bit earlier, but don't remember reading anything about it getting ruined.

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1. praptak ◴[31 Aug 25 13:21 UTC] No.45082971[source]▶
GP probably means being initially released under a proprietary license.
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2. justin66 ◴[31 Aug 25 16:52 UTC] No.45084691[source]▶
The problem at this stage is, the older versions of the software which are complete and which everyone historically used are closed source and now out of date because they target OSes from eleven years ago, and there’s an open source version which nobody contributes to because it’s incomplete and different than the version everyone used.

As with - for example - the classic Netscape browser, it would have made more sense to just open source the one people used, rather than some new and incomplete thing. The pertinent difference being there weren’t thousands of open source developers waiting to take up the slack and help finish an incomplete version of REBOL.

(Someone more familiar is welcome to correct me on the details)