Red Programming Language

Summary

Red is a next-gen programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL. Main features are: Human-friendly syntax Homoiconic (Red is its own meta-language and own data-format) Functional, imperative, reactive and symbolic programming Prototype-based object support Multi-typing Powerful pattern-matching Macros system Rich set of built-in datatypes (50+) Both statically and JIT-compiled(*) to native code Cross-compilation done right Produces executables of less than 1MB, with no dependencies Concurrency and parallelism strong support (actors, parallel collections)(*) Low-level system programming abilities through the built-in Red/System DSL Powerful PEG parser DSL built-inFast, compacting Garbage Collector Cross-platform native GUI system, with a UI layout DSL and drawing DSL Bridging to the JVM High-level scripting and REPL GUI and CLI consoles included Visual Studio Code plugin, with many helpful features Highly embeddable Low memory footprint Single-file (~1MB) contains whole toolchain, full standard library and REPL (**) No install, no setup Fun guaranteed! (*) Not implemented yet.(**) Temporarily split in two binaries Red’s ambitious goal is to build the world’s first full-stack language, a language you can use from system programming tasks, up to high-level scripting through DSL. You've probably heard of the term "Full-Stack Developer". But what is a full-stack Language, exactly? Other languages talk about having "one tool to rule them all". Red has that mindset too, pushed to the limit - it's a single executable that takes in your source files on any platform, and produces a packaged binary for any platform, from any other. The tool doesn’t depend on anything besides what came with your OS...shipping as a single executable that about a megabyte. But that technical feat alone isn't enough to define Red's notion of a "Full-Stack Language". It's about the ability to bend and redefine the system to meet any need, while still working with literate code, and getting top-f...