Red is intriguing, but man they lost some faith with me on their direction/motivation that time they went hard in the paint on their own cryptocurrency...
Red/Rebol is one of those languages that throws down a gauntlet for other languages. (Factor is another, as is Elm.)<p>You can be so productive in Red with so little experience that it's almost irresponsible not to use it and promote it.<p>If you could write a program that replaced you, would you?
From the top page of this site:<p>'A Modern Incarnation of Rebol<p>'Red is based conceptually and syntactically on Rebol ("Relative Expression Based Object Language"). Rebol is a commercial, closed source programming language created in the late 1990's which aimed to be the most productive, readable, and concise development tool available. Its main goal was to reduce code complexity and to remove bloated infrastructure found in typical software development stacks.'<p>Looks like the pitch is to use this instead of a huge collection of Excel docs to run your business, with the key feature being it's a simple enough language you can train anyone capable of learning Excel to use Red instead.
When I last checked, the distribution was 32 bit only, until a future date at which it can be made to self-compile. Is that still the case? (It doesn't really impact me but I'm curious)<p>Oh and fun little tidbit--for at least a decade+, Carl Sassenrath used Rebol in his work to maintain multiple channels of OTA television access for everybody in the little valley where I live. I was surprised when I learned about this from some local techies.