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For those who (like me) hadn't seen the Red Language before, there's a lot to like there:

http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

Not having a baroque toolchain with fifty dependencies has in itself already persuaded me to give it a try.

Yes, and I also like their stated goal of Reducing complexity.

Good luck, Reducers.

Welcome to Red @Turing_Machine! Baroque is fine for music, but not for tech. :) It's funny how a certain feature will attract people to Red (and its predecessor Rebol), but then you find so much more inside. I was the same way. When I found Rebol, in 2001, it was the GUI system that hooked me. That's still a great feature, of course, but it's the core language/format itself, the datatypes, `parse`, and more that I miss when using other tools.

I've seen you on the Rebol/Red forums...do you get paid to write Rebol?

I've made a living using Rebol for 16 years, with other things when I have to. :^)

Ha ha, very cool. Then you must know Nick Antonaccio, who has too. Seen his Rebol sites.

Yes indeed. He's a great guy.

I love his 60 bazillion sites. I've seen his stuff on lulu as well, but I wished he went into more detail on some of the apps at times. I can mostly follow along, but stuff like rebtris is pretty terse in a way (lot of functionality in one spot).

Yes he has many sites. Some overlap among them, but still good. Agreed that more detail would be good.

Haha, thanks Gregg! Glad to hear that people do. I hope Red catches on and you can use that for everything (my intent if it works out)!

You inspired me to give it a try. There is a lot to like but cross platform GUI isn't there yet. All the GUI examples I tried failed with cryptic error messages. Took some searching ("Red" doesn't lead to fruitful searches by itself obviously) to find that Linux is not yet supported. Apparently the developer who cared about Linux GUI support has abandoned the cause.

Cross platform for Windows and Mac are there today. "Red" does make searches tough, we know. Red currently has backers, and Linux GUI hasn't been on their priority list. Android will come before Linux, and is far along already. For Linux, today, Wine is the suggested approach.

> Any plans to run a private NEO blockchain?

After visiting the NEO website I have no idea what it is supposed to be.

https://neo.org/

So how exactly do they plan to make money?

I think the usual way: let people buy their tokens with Bitcoin, then sell these Bitcoin, there is no step 3. Or did you mean even more detailed description?

From what has been said publicly, the blockchain sub-project will help raise funds to fuel development in the near term. Long term sustainability, and value, will come from building products, services, and tools.

Good to know they won't be relying on blockchain alone for funding, at least in the long term.

I think Red could find some momentum with blockchain, but I'm not sure how many people will go for yet another ICO, although I'm very ignorant in that area. As long as they keep chugging along I'm happy though. One day I'd love to be able to use Red for nearly all my computing needs.

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