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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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hn-ifs ◴[31 Aug 25 11:13 UTC] No.45082292[source]▶
I remember looking at red ages ago but never got round to using it. I like to learn odd non-mainstream languages. Currently learning Nushell which is an amazing alternative shell. And I like the look of roc-lang too.

I'm desperate for a truly cross platform programming language with gui abilities on those platforms. I'm slowly learning dart/flutter for this but truly wish for something simpler. I get the reasoning behind flutters declarative style but it's certainly not simple, especially when you get to state management.

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0x0203 ◴[31 Aug 25 11:51 UTC] No.45082465[source]▶
Tcl/tk is still alive and doing well. It's cross platform, very quick to learn, and easily embeddable into other languages/projects.
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hollerith ◴[31 Aug 25 11:55 UTC] No.45082484[source]▶
Can you name an important software written in Tcl or Tk?

Important softwares written in Ruby for example include Rails and Homebrew.

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SomeHacker44 ◴[31 Aug 25 13:04 UTC] No.45082852[source]▶
The FPGA software from Xilinx and Altera are scripted with Tcl/Tk.
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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[31 Aug 25 15:11 UTC] No.45083781[source]▶
This. In fact it seems like plenty of hardware-eng tools use Tcl, and looking at all alternatives it's not a bad choice.

With Tcl you get something like a Lisp with a flexible consistent syntax, but less brainy and more pragmatic, and designed to drive other tools.

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2. justin66 ◴[31 Aug 25 17:02 UTC] No.45084789[source]▶
My impression many years ago was that it’s really not that bad. I got up and running writing simple programs immediately, and wouldn’t have tried to go outside its capabilities as a simple scripting language.