The Red language is inspired by the interpreted language Rebol, but is compiled and hence has a wider range of application...from device drivers to high-level purposes. It is functional, imperative and symbolic, with prototype-based object support. Like LISP and Rebol, it is homoiconic and thus its own meta-language. It is both statically and JIT-compiled to native code, with strong support for concurrency and parallelism (actors, parallel collections).
Red is a paradigm-neutral homoiconic language.
Red has a low memory footprint, and has a low disk footprint (< 1MB). Red seeks to be a "full-stack" language whose methodology is independent of any other toolchain. It's goal is to compile that which can be known ahead of time, JIT-compile that which cannot, and embeds a small interpreter into its executables to handle constructions which are not amenable to any compilation.
As an intermediate language (IL) Red uses a C-like language called red-system. Red/System's parser is reused from Red itself...and for which it has its own code generators. The Red executable is able to build Red/System files directly (*.reds) as well as Red files (*.red), and Red/System code may be embedded freely in Red code.
- Red Language Website
- @red_lang on Twitter.
- Red community chat on Gitter.
- Mailing-List
- IRC channel on Freenode
