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thgaway17 | 5 years ago

TIL Carl Sassenrath is at Roku.

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SI_Rob|5 years ago

Is he still actively involved with REBOL?

Is REBOL - er, RED, still an active project? Dialecting sounded like an early attempt at a generalized DSL model, but I never had time to follow the details.

9214|5 years ago

Rebol2 is de-facto abandoned, Rebol3 has split into divergent community forks [1], and Red suffers from setbacks with organizational issues trying to deliver its vision. Carl is not involved in any of the projects.

In the Rebol family, "dialect" is an umbrella term for embedded DSLs and micro-formats [2]; nothing new compared to Lisp, Forth, and Logo, from which these ideas were borrowed.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31517518/5889272

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24083108