Red - Programming language

Red is an open source programming language created in 2011 by Nenad Rakocevic.

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Red is a computer programming language. Red was made to overcome the limitations of the programming language Rebol. Introduced in 2011 by Nenad Rakocevic, Red is both an imperative and functional programming language. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Red is developed on GitHub and has 5,479 stars
There are at least 453 Red repos on GitHub
Early development of Red happened in https://github.com/red
Red is written in R, Java, Markdown, XML, YAML, C, HTML, Bourne shell, CSS, Dockerfile, Visual Basic, CSV
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 92 users using Red in 98 repos on GitHub
Explore Red snippets on Rosetta Code
Red appears in the TIOBE Index
Red LSP implementation
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Red
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Red
Learn Red on exercism.
red-lang.org was registered in 2010
See also: (7 related languages) Linux, Scala, Lua, X86, ARM, FreeBSD, Android
1 PLDB concepts link to Red: Particles

Example from Riju:

Red [Title: "Main"]

print "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

Red [Needs: 'View]
view [text "Hello World"]

Example from Linguist:

Red/System [
    Title:      "Red/System example file"
    Purpose:    "Just some code for testing Pygments colorizer"
    Language:   http://www.red-lang.org/
]

#include %../common/FPU-configuration.reds

; C types

#define time!                   long!
#define clock!                  long!

date!: alias struct! [
    second                      [integer!]  ; 0-61 (60?)
    minute                      [integer!]  ; 0-59
    hour                        [integer!]  ; 0-23

    day                         [integer!]  ; 1-31
    month                       [integer!]  ; 0-11
    year                        [integer!]  ; Since 1900

    weekday                     [integer!]  ; 0-6 since Sunday
    yearday                     [integer!]  ; 0-365
    daylight-saving-time?       [integer!]  ; Negative: unknown
]

#either OS = 'Windows [
    #define clocks-per-second   1000
][
    ; CLOCKS_PER_SEC value for Syllable, Linux (XSI-conformant systems)
    ; TODO: check for other systems
    #define clocks-per-second   1000'000
]

#import [LIBC-file cdecl [

    ; Error handling

    form-error: "strerror" [  ; Return error description.
        code            [integer!]
        return:         [c-string!]
    ]
    print-error: "perror" [  ; Print error to standard error output.
        string          [c-string!]
    ]


    ; Memory management

    make: "calloc" [  ; Allocate zero-filled memory.
        chunks          [size!]
        size            [size!]
        return:         [binary!]
    ]
    resize: "realloc" [  ; Resize memory allocation.
        memory          [binary!]
        size            [size!]
        return:         [binary!]
    ]
 ]
 
 JVM!: alias struct! [
    reserved0                   [int-ptr!]
    reserved1                   [int-ptr!]
    reserved2                   [int-ptr!]
    
    DestroyJavaVM               [function! [[JNICALL] vm [JVM-ptr!] return: [jint!]]]
    AttachCurrentThread         [function! [[JNICALL] vm [JVM-ptr!] penv [struct! [p [int-ptr!]]] args [byte-ptr!] return: [jint!]]]
    DetachCurrentThread         [function! [[JNICALL] vm [JVM-ptr!] return: [jint!]]]
    GetEnv                      [function! [[JNICALL] vm [JVM-ptr!] penv [struct! [p [int-ptr!]]] version [integer!] return: [jint!]]]
    AttachCurrentThreadAsDaemon [function! [[JNICALL] vm [JVM-ptr!] penv [struct! [p [int-ptr!]]] args [byte-ptr!] return: [jint!]]]
]

 ;just some datatypes for testing:
 
 #some-hash
 10-1-2013
 quit
 
 ;binary:
 #{00FF0000}
 #{00FF0000 FF000000}
 #{00FF0000	FF000000} ;with tab instead of space
 2#{00001111}
 64#{/wAAAA==}
 64#{/wAAA A==} ;with space	 inside
 64#{/wAAA	A==} ;with tab inside
 
 
 ;string with char
 {bla ^(ff) foo}
 {bla ^(( foo}
 ;some numbers:
 12
 1'000
 1.2
 FF00FF00h
 
 ;some tests of hexa number notation with not common ending
 [ff00h ff00h] ff00h{} FFh"foo" 00h(1 + 2) (AEh)

;normal words:
foo char

;get-word
:foo
 
;lit-word:
'foo 'foo

to-integer foo
foo/(a + 1)/b

call/output reform ['which interpreter] path: copy ""

 version-1.1:   00010001h
 
 #if type = 'exe [
    push system/stack/frame                 ;-- save previous frame pointer
    system/stack/frame: system/stack/top    ;-- @@ reposition frame pointer just after the catch flag
]
push CATCH_ALL                              ;-- exceptions root barrier
push 0                                      ;-- keep stack aligned on 64-bit

Example from Wikipedia:

Red/System [Title: "A factorial script"]

factorial: func [
	x       [integer!]                   ; This is compulsory in Red/System
	return: [integer!]                   ; This is compulsory in Red/System
][
	either x = 0 [1][x * factorial x - 1]
]

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Comments	✓	; A comment
Line Comments	✓	; A comment	;
Semantic Indentation	X