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Red (Programming Language)

Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL.

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  1.  Cross Compilation
  2.  Functional Language
  3.  Compiles to native assembly code
  4.  Expressive

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Potentially a cross-compiling programming language that can more easily create cross-platform applications for desktop and mobile OSes.

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What is Red (Programming Language)?

Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL icon REBOL.

Main characteristics are:

-Functional, imperative and symbolic -Prototype-based object support -Homoiconic (Red is its own meta-language) -Both statically and JIT-compiled to native code -Concurrency and parallelism strong support (actors, parallel collections) -Low-level system programming abilities through the built-in Red/System DSL -High-level scripting and REPL console support -Highly embeddable -Low memory footprint, garbage collected -Low disk footprint (< 1MB)