LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 02-May-2021 01:10:42 UTC
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 02-May-2021 01:10:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} This is why I’m quizzical about the #Rebol inspired #Red programming language ( https://www.red-lang-org/ ) gaining some sort of deeply embedded #cryptocurrency / #blockchain attachment.
It doesn’t bother me that “they wrote a cryptocurrency wallet in Red”:{https://www.red-lang.org/2019/07/red-wallet-040.html}. What bothers me is that it sounds like “they’re deeply integrating blockchain into the language itself”:{https://www.red-lang.org/2017/12/leaping-into-future-red-goes-blockchain.html}.
I see the potential, yes, but deeply tying one’s programming language to a single concept like this is a questionable choice, like creating a language and bonding it to CORBA would have been twenty years ago.
I guess we’ll just have to see how deeply integrated this Red/C3 “dialect” is. Some REBOL dialects are effectively a set of user-level functions. If Red/C3 is also, then it isn’t a big deal. If, on the other hand, it is part of the red.exe binary, then it may easily become an issue.