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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Jul-2021 22:28:05 EDT lnxw48a1
   Is it weird that I check https://www.red-lang.org/ almost daily to see whether the have finally published updated info? The last entry dates back to 2020-08-20, but I've seen activity in their repos and their Gitter chat, so I know it isn't dead.
   
   I sort of root for #Red-Lang, because of its #REBOL heritage, though I've only used Rebol briefly. It feels a little LISP-y, yet it has something akin to objects and replaces parentheses with a smaller number of square brackets. It is also homoiconic. See http://wiki.c2.com/?HomoiconicLanguages and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
   
   Another resemblance to Lisp: Rebol seems to have some problem connecting with the wider world which doesn't conform to its paradigms, though I think Red is working to pierce the wall of separation.
   
   Still, for people just hearing of Red, they'll visit the site and see no news since last year and think it is abandoned or slow-moving, as Rebol is. (V.2 is supposedly being replaced with v.3, but work on Rebol 3 seems to have stopped a few years back and the main creator has a new language now.)
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Aug-2021 03:02:13 EDT lnxw48a1

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