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Red

Full-Stack programming language inspired by REBOL
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What is Red?

It is both an imperative and functional programming language. Its syntax and general usage overlaps that of the interpreted Rebol language.
Red is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Red is an open source tool with 5.5K GitHub stars and 412 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Red's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Red?

Companies
3 companies reportedly use Red in their tech stacks, including Labs, Robotix, and oXygen XML Editor.

Developers
37 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Red.
Pros of Red
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I use Red because of his human oriented design
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I use Red because I'm so used to Rebol ultra-efficiency

Red's Features

  • Full-Stack
  • Small footprint
  • Functional
  • Symbolic
  • Reactive
  • GUI
  • Easy cross-compilation

Red Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Red?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
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Red's Followers
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