World: r3wp

And where it is today

What to do then?

Give up and pick another language

or build an alternative?

Nenadn chooses the second one

My answer is Red

Red[udeced] REBOL dialect

Fully open sourced (MIT/BSD)

Statically compiled + JIT compiled

Parllel programing support

parllel = parallel

general purpose (system programming support)

cool! Any ETA? (in months, years?) :-)

Can be used for scripting like REBOL (REPL console)

how much is it similar to REBOL syntax-wise?

@ Pekr, Nenad answers that in last slide

ok, so will slides be available later? I can wait. Good news indeed 
:-)

yes

Easily embeddable in other apps (think Lua)

Work in progress .. started 3 months ago, but thinking about it since 
years

just wait for the end of the presentation.

Red language features tour

- Syntax is strongely inspired by REBOL

semantic rules: most of REBOL

- Type system

-- Rcih, most of REBOL types

just an embeddable core into other environments, or will some GUI 
be possible later too? Also - will concepts like 'parse be available? 
networking (and other) ports?

-- New types as pluggable modules (literal form accessible)

-- type inference , when possible

-- type mismatches caught at compile-time instead of runtime

@Pekr parse network ports, yes. GUI later

- First-class functions and HOF support

- Meta-programming support (JIT-compiled code)

REBOL features not supported by Red

- Too "abstracted" code

- Dynamic word binding

Red Architecture Overview

Red Memory Model

- Thread-local memory allocation

-- arrays of 128 bit cells

- Possiblity for shared immutable data structures

- Garbage collector

-- Compacting collector

-- stop-the-thread GC model

-- Incremental GC vor V1+

vor = for

Red/System language

Red Concurrent & Parallel programming

- "PPL challenge"

- Task parallelism