A new language inspired by REBOL : World language

REBOL, the programming language created by Carl Sassenrath, has inspired another programming language : World !
Created by John Niclasen (alias Geomol), an active contributor to REBOL (NicomDB, NicomDoc, RebXML, ...).

For more information, visit the Official Web Site :

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

The source are available at Github :

https://github.com/Geomol/World

There's also an Altme group #world to discuss about this new language.

Nicolas

Demo of Google Text to Speech for Red/System

Jocko (a member of REBOL's french community) has made a demo for Red/System of Google TTS.

Source is available here.

New Red/System editor in REBOL !

Francois has made a REBOL editor for Red/System !
You can edit Red/System source, compile it (for Windows, Linux, MacOSX) and run it !

Great job !

To run the editor, you must download Red/System specifications (red-system-specs.txt) and put it into a %docs directory in the REBOL installation directory and just type in REBOL console :

do http://perso.numericable.fr/frajouen/Red/editor.r

Nicolas

First contribution to Cheyenne

Maxim has working on the first module for Cheyenne : web-api.

The source are available here.

The aim of this module is to offer Webservices like functions.

News from REBOL3 project...

Before today's announcement from Nenad about Red/System, let's take some news from REBOL3 project.
If you're an AltME addict, you're probably already aware of such interesting news from Robert Muench.

"I have some knews regarding R3.
In the last two days I had longer calls with Carl and decided how to move R3 forward. 
This is how it will be done: 
- The RMA team will help to get some burden from Carl's shoulder and work on open issues. This will be setup in that we get partial access to the necessary code parts and can work on these.
- We are going to extend our internal testing infrastructure etc on these new R3 releases and run it against our applications we crate
- Carl and I will have regular calls to discuss the status and things where we need his advise etc. So, to keep the loop closed and gain more speed
- I will meet with Carl in person on 23rd Juli to discuss further things
- Unitil that we want to get most administrative setup done, so that we are ready to go



We are going to drive the priorities by the things RMA needs. This shouldn't be a problem for anyone because if you are going to use R3 for serious development than you will need it as well.


The thing is, that we are not going to jump-start for every requested feature etc. We know there is a lot to do and we will work through it step-by-step. And, this is not because we don't care what you all state here. Definetly not. I want to move R3 forward as fast as possible. This needs concentration, focus and pushing to finally get it done. At the end of the day the only thing that counts is, if we make it to make R3 stable enough for prime time development.


So, stay tuned and I must say that this is the most promising development for a long time.


Let's see if Carl and RMA will make it to deliver on this. Which, still needs to be proofed but I'm not going to stop to push for it.


Some notes:
- We will have an NDA
- Carl didn't lost interest, he is full comitted to R3. His contract work is (still) / was very intense. Things get a bit more relaxed there now.


- I / RMA will be the main communication channel. I have access to Rebol-3 twitter and there exists a RMA twitter.
- We will continue to work on the R3-GUI and release it as we did before (sometimes there might be longer periods of no-release, if we are doing massive changes)
- The main focus will be: fixing bugs, defining and writing down how datatypes are handled WRT conversion, priority, sorting etc." 


(Robert Muench)

Nicolas

Topaz : a new project inspired by REBOL !

Topaz is a new project by Gabriele Santilli (this man has working on several REBOL projects).

For the moment at early stage, but it is interresting to follow this project.
And according to TomBon "Topaz is a sillicate based gemstone, with the correct impurities, it could morphe to Topaz Red". Excellent Tom !

The source are available on Github.

And there's also a Try Topaz available online !

For the moment, Topaz bootstraping phase is complete. You can compile into Javascript and run it under node.js

Good Luck Gabriele.

Nicolas

Live from Cht'i RUG 2011 in France !

I'm at Cht'i RUG in Lille (France).

Presentation of Red language is french.

Follow us on french community of Red Language :

http://twitter.com/redlang_france

Nicolas

Some news...

Here comes a resume of what is happening in Red programmation language creation !

The Official site for Red programming language red-lang.org has been updated !
Nenad adds a :

• Documentation section : Red/System specification is expected next week
• Contributions section : first contribution of Kaj de Vos !

The first contributions for Red/System is the implementation of 0MQ in Red programming language.
There's also a REBOL 2 and 3 implementation :

0MQ is flexible messaging subsystem. Messages can be carried from inproc, IPC, TCP and multicast.

A french community site has been launched !

http://www.redlang-france.org

Nenad has improved the preprocessor support, adds a minimal runtime environment, adds cross compilation using -f ELF | PE option.

Official presentation of Red language at ReBorCon2011

The Red language has been officialy presented at ReBorCon 2011 in the Netherlands.
Red language history starts the 26th of february 2011.

Red language is created by DocKimbel an important personnality in the Rebol community.
DocKimbel created Cheyenne a very lightweight WebServer in Rebol.
He also worked on several driver like MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP.

All his creation can be found at softinnov.org
FYI softinnov.org is the research and development department of Softinnov company.
Softinnov is a french company based in Paris who provide Rebol based software and solutions.

You can found the presentation at red-lang.org

Video of the presentation during the ReBorCon 2011 can be found on YouTube.

Usefull links :

• ReBorCon 2011 official site
• Red language official's blog
• Red language official's Twitter
• Rebol language
• Rebol Week : a summary of what's happening in the Rebol Community
• Red language : video of the announce

Nicolas