Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL

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95 points Levitating | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 03:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.343s | 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]▶

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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]▶

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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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1. AdieuToLogic ◴[01 Sep 25 01:05 UTC] No.45088499[source]▶

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> Can you name an important software written in Tcl or Tk?

MacPorts[0] uses Tcl significantly.

EDIT:

The expect[1] command also uses Tcl and has a variant which uses Tk.

0 - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports

1 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=expect&apropos=0&s...

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