[REBOL] Re: Rebol for .NET
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 12-May-2004 11:27
Hi Giuseppe,
GC> Do you think that a REBOL for .NET would be possible ? It will
GC> surely open the door to any hardware which has a .NET framework
GC> available !
It's very unlikely. .NET compiles down to an internal IL (Intermediate
Language) to run on their VM; REBOL is purely interpreted. RT has
mentioned in the past that it would be possible to create a compiler
for a subset of REBOL (or maybe the whole language, not sure), but you
would lose the dynamic aspect of REBOL.
I think I'd rather have a native code compiler myself, and a good
infrastructure for building REBOL apps that can talk to each other,
and apps built in other languages.
-- Gregg
