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Red Programming Language 0.6.3 9 years ago

The current compiler was written with the aim of quick development till 1.0 is reached (because in the initial development phase, there are obviously many other important things to focus on). So, yeah the toolchain has some issues, eg. there are very few (if any) optimizations. Also, only 32 bit is supported.

There are AFAIK no plans to add 64 bit support before bootstrapping phase because the current toolchain architecture isn't that great and will be heavily improved during 1.x cycle.

A bit more details here -

https://gitter.im/red/red?at=56ac45a1586242210ae0704d

and https://github.com/red/red/wiki/Question-about-contributing-...

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Red Programming Language 0.6.3 9 years ago

Looking at platforms, does it not do 64 bit?

Right now, it only compiles to 32 bit binaries (which can run on both 32 and 64 bit OS).

64 bit support will come after the compiler is bootstrapped.

and cross compiles

Yup, easy cross compilation. You do not need different cross compilers for different platforms a la llvm and gcc, a single 1 mb binary can produce binaries for all supported platforms.

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The glEnd of Zelda(): Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016) 9 years ago

What is the knowledge (low-level/math/computer-graphics/etc/etc/...) required to create something like this.

I am a student in 1st year currently. And I am very much interested in Emulation as well as crazy stuff like this.

Can anyone please explain in a bit of detail what all knowledge is required to build such a thing.

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TheAIGames – Develop your coding skills by competing in various AI competitions 10 years ago

Sorry, i haven't looked at the website yet, so what I may be asking might be pretty vague and far from reality.

Is the bots api available over http (get/post/whatever)? If no, will it be possible to have one? It will allow a whole lot of programming languages to be used. Just authenticate your bot using some token generated by the website, and then run the bot on your own pc or some server. It will allow us to play with the website with our favourite programming language even if you guys don't officialy support it.

For eg. currently my favourite programming language is Red. It is still in alpha, and is relatively unknown to people, so I don't think that there are any chances to get it supported on the website. But api over http would allow me to play with it as well.

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Ask HN: What are the most promising/interesting new programming languages? 10 years ago

For me, it's -

1) Red - Small in size; Readable, compact and concise code. Its a powerful All-in-One Package with lots of great features as well as easy for newcomers. It can be used for low level as well as high level programming.

http://www.red-lang.org/

2) Rust - Its powerful concepts of borrowing and ownership, and its tight security features are just great. But its kinda verbose.

3) Nim - Clean, readable code. Fast compile times as well as compiled code. Lots of good ideas in it. Different gc's for different use cases are great.

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Ask HN: What are the most promising/interesting new programming languages? 10 years ago

Elixir is great. Simple and powerful. I just wish the size of the Erlang distribution was small so that I could use Elixir for desktop apps as well, as currently it would require a 100 mb VM for people to run even a 10 line script.

I have not used Elixir for anything big. I would really love to try elixir someday for bigger apps. Is there a Elixir-to-JS compiler somewhere? Nodejs is much smaller in size than BEAM. So distributing Elixir apps would be easier.

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The K Language 10 years ago

Well,

code/data duality = homoiconicity

There are many languages which do not use sexps but are homoiconic.

See "examples" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity

Yes, most of the examples look very limited compared to Lisp but there is Rebol / Red (http://www.red-lang.org/) which is atleast as powerful as Lisp in terms of homoiconicity (as well as in other things), if not more. Red/Rebol don't use sexps, don't look like this (((())))), are highly dynamic and homoiconic.

See "Homoiconicity in Rebol" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity (well, no good examples over there which shows Rebol's features properly.)

RE the learning curve: Do you think the APL family can exist without the terse syntax?

So yes, I think that the APL family could exist without the terse syntax, but well hey, everything has its tradeoffs and all this is subjective - everyone has his own thinking - there might be someone in this world who in love with the APL syntax :D

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Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System 10 years ago

Yes it was true. But not in this sense. The current IO support is minimal and temporary (IO is scheduled for 0.7.0). Also, the gui support is currently windows only (more OSes to come soon). So dockimbel and others meant that we should avoid over-exposure else it would lead to negative attention as there is a large bunch of devs on Linux and OSX platforms as well. The point is that lots of planned features are missing right now.

Although my personal opinion is that it is a good time to jump into Red because it is expected that Red 1.0 release date near about 1 year. So, learning Red, and finding bugs in it is gonna help you and both the project to advance further quickly and get ready for prime time action.

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Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System 10 years ago

As rebolek said, yes, there is a layer. The blog states that `Flexible backend support that can be mapped to virtually any kind of UI library.` which means that the abstractions used are good enough to support different OS. There are plans to support View (gui) on each platform (desktop/mobile) that Red supports. But it's going to take some time. Lots of other features to be added as well :D .

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Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System 10 years ago

Red/Rebol is basically LISP without parentheses (highly dynamic and homoiconic). Syntax is weird but easy to grasp. Red/Rebol is basically a All-in-One Package as a tiny executable contains a lots of useful functions for which you would require the use of big, heavy libraries in C/C++.

Red/Rebol allows for very clean (subjective term!), short and concise code, which allows for easy long term maintenance and also leads to more work done in less amount of time.

The syntax is a big deviation than the imperative C-Style languages people are used to. But if you ask me, then well, it is for the good.

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Red Language: Features and future directions 11 years ago

Red 1.0 won't feature many optimizations. So at that time the performance will be comparable to python. After that, their plan is to rewrite the codegenerator in a modular way so that more targets, as well as more optimizations can be added. Also, a JIT compiler will be added. The plans for Red 2.0, as much as I know, is to achieve performance as close to C as possible.

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