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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 5.6K GitHub stars and 416 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.
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.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Red's Followers
42 developers follow Red to keep up with related blogs and decisions.