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I think I'll stick with Red.

And if you like Rebol you should. Spry is nowhere near as evolved as Red (which is darn impressive) and Spry is also moving towards Smalltalk more than Rebol.

I also think there is quite a bit of difference in philosophy. Rebol/Red loves adding tons of hardwired datatypes into the language, while Spry is more Lisp/Smalltalkish in minimalism. Also, Rebol shunned OO which Spry doesn't (Red... not so sure).

But shunning OO is popular these days :)

What are you using it for if I may ask? And how are you finding it?

It's not in a workhorse languages category yet, but in a hobby languages, alongside Perl 6. I'm interested in Parse dialect, seems very powerful. Wasn't a user of Rebol previously, but I like that Red mostly reimplements it, without straying to the sides.

And yeah, Parse is very interesting. I would like to do something similar in Spry but perhaps borrowing more from PetitParser (a very nice parser combinator library in Smalltalk from Lukas Renggli)

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