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OMG, OMG REBOL 3 is here!?

January 9th, 2008

You know. There are some things, that are very cool and are about to happen… someday. And you just wait and wait. Slowly a feeling creeps over that it is just never going to happen…

Well, BUT IT DID TODAY!

REBOL 3 - PUBLIC Alpha was released in its standard <1MB size. I downloaded it, it works, examples look great!

A quick scan through the new wiki docs showed that Rebol 3 somewhat changed it’s focus and philosophy to better in the two very important fields. It seems it’s more open in many ways than before, and more practical (competitive to other languages in doing stuff, not just as a language but as a toolkit).

To name just few features

  • Open implementation of interfaces and subsystems
  • Async networking
  • Multi-threaded
  • New graphical subsystem.

I think they use AntiGrain software renderer now which already proved itself with sore real big-time casual games (Wik and the fable of souls). I can’t wait to have time to play with R3 and feel some REBOLUTION!

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Btw. I accidentally came to a slick comparison of Ruby & Rebol. It very quickly shows what REBOL is and isn’t. Think of it as comparison of a more or less “normal” progy. language with REBOL :)

funny quote:

Ruby is a blend of ideas from other programming languages, with some new bits thrown in (no offense meant to Matz; Ruby is what I might be using if not for REBOL). REBOL is different; really different; and we don’t know how to exploit it fully yet.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 11:05 am and is filed under Just programming.

One Response to “OMG, OMG REBOL 3 is here!?”

  1. James Irwin Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    I can’t wait for R3 to be finished! REBOLers unite! (BTW, the guy who wrote the “slick comparison of Ruby and REBOL” is my Dad.)

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