[REBOL] Re: Popularity
From: carl:cybercraft at: 25-Jan-2006 23:48
On Wednesday, 25-January-2006 at 9:54:08 Tim Johnson wrote,
> I feel like rebol is in sort of a "catch-22" where the low level of
> usage contraindicates usage and contributes to maintaining that low
> level.
My feeling is it'll stay there too, unless plugins are released for the main browsers
(of all the main OSs) and it goes open-source. The plugins are important as I think
the browser is the desktop of the future - think REBOL vs AJAX. And it needs to be open-source
because many won't touch a language that isn't, and a high percentage of those who won't
are loud voices on the Net. Meaning to be talked about these days requires it to be
open-source.
Apart from the plugin only supporting IE, REBOL's in quite good shape now. The docs
are good, it's on OS X and rebcode's there for those who need speedy routines. Maybe
it'd be enough if the rough-ends were tidied up (OS X version leaves beta and so on)
and the plugin appeared on the other browsers. It'd require some really interesting
software to be produced for the plugin though - and for it to get a mention here and
there.
-- Carl Read.
