Red: The World’s First Full-Stack Programming Language
When we say “Full-Stack” we mean one common language base to code
everything, from metal to meta. Platform-native GUIs, DSLs, code
generators, device drivers, an OS…anything you can imagine.
With both a REPL and a self-contained toolchain, it’s easy to get
started. One file. Drop and go. It’s also homoiconic. Red is its
own data format.
Red’s Mission: Fight software complexity.
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How Red Stacks Up
Red’s real superpower is the ability to bend and redefine the system to meet any need, improving readability and providing top-flight performance at the same time. This allows Red to extend its reach in both directions, down to the hardware and up through metaprogramming.
Abstraction on Every Level
Red is more than just a language. It’s a language construction set.
Whether you’re writing a device driver, a platform-native GUI application,
or a shared library, Red’s flexibility lets you use a common syntax to
code at the right level of abstraction for the task.
Some dialects (a.k.a. embedded DSLs) are already built in, to show you how it’s done. There’s one for writing GUIs, another for vector drawing, and a PEG-like parsing dialect. Even Red/System, the C level language is a dialect of Red.
RED Tokens on the Blockchain
Coming in 2020, Red/C3 will be your new best friend on the blockchain
for smart contracts and decentralized apps. It is being designed to
provide cross-chain smart contracts, just as Red is cross-platform for
native apps. We hope to build a new economic model to better support
open source project communities, which may be used later by other open
source teams.
Red’s domain-specific languages and ease of use make it a revolutionary new tool for the decentralized web. Stay tuned!
A Language That Speaks For Itself
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