Comments on Loudly Recursive: JavaScript & REBOL

i came across this while trying to find a simple c...

2010-02-09T03:55:00.953-05:00

i came across this while trying to find a simple connect and annonimous chat IRC channel were rebol people might hang out.

its odd but there isn't one, and you need to register for all the chat options i could find, very odd, but no matter.

http://github.com/jankom/RebToStatic

an alpha/beta Compiler from Rebol to JavaScript. — Read more
some readers might be interested in it here i assume.

oh well that's fine then, in that context yes it s...

2010-02-09T02:33:58.169-05:00

oh well that's fine then, in that context yes it seems interesting.

i thought id go and actually look at what scripts are available as it was today.

its shame most/many example scripts fail in some nasty way when you open rebol view (any version available) shell window and

do http:// a direct url to most of the scripts found here though
http://www.rebol.org/st-topic-details.r?tag=//ui

i would have thought someone that cared would have fixed that basic problem at some point.

do http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=area-scroll-style.r

as just one example, it doest look good when simple example scripts fail, or worse crash the rebol view script interpreter.

p.s i do like your work, and don't mean to offend if i did.

I think you've missed the point, Mr. Anonymous. I'...

2010-02-06T08:03:13.512-05:00

I think you've missed the point, Mr. Anonymous. I'm not comparing REBOL and JavaScript in terms of their market success or employment potential. I'm comparing them syntactically, purely for language enthusiasts. Believe it or not, there are people who like programming languages merely because they are interesting in some way.

So this isn't about "cash". I know a number of languages with which I can and do make plenty of money: C#, JavaScript, Objective-C, and so on. While I hope that I can one day make money with REBOL, it will never be as a client-side browser scripting language. I like REBOL because I find its syntax interesting. That's it.

i guess from the masses of reply's then, that rebo...

2010-02-06T02:26:18.297-05:00

i guess from the masses of reply's then, that rebol's just a page filler for some extra cash, and everyone just continues to use JavaScript to make their real cash ;)

but what good is this rebol thing ? its not like t...

2010-02-03T22:30:29.855-05:00

but what good is this rebol thing ? its not like they can take a generic JW Player
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard?example=247

and HD stream and control that H.264 video content like the JavaScript generating page can from their rebol web one liners or even their pro web server things.

and even IF they could somehow cobble something together to wrap around the stream H.264 jw-player , it seems the few rebol dev's capable have ZERO Interest in anything remotely graphical or video streaming related judging by the Total lack of any example video scripting apps.

how many years have they been around ? and not one simple fully working streaming video plug-in or stand alone example to be found, were as every one and his dog knows you want Food embedded HD video on your site, use jw-player and JavaScript.

didn't their rebol leader and his mate Dave something or other once make the worlds best home video hardware and software OS or something,shame their users cant even bother to write a few working video apps like every one else on the net seems to want to use....

Yes, Lua is an interesting language. I like it. Bu...

2009-07-05T17:46:18.003-04:00

Yes, Lua is an interesting language. I like it. But it's still true that not very many languages are prototype languages.

"However, both languages are prototype languages, ...

2009-07-05T16:41:15.848-04:00

"However, both languages are prototype languages, and that’s certainly not true of a lot of languages."

Lua is a lot like JavaScript.

Wow amazing article, I have added your blog to my ...

2009-07-03T20:20:08.043-04:00

Wow amazing article, I have added your blog to my rebol's blog:
http://reboltutorial.com/rebol-network/

It's a beginner's blog for beginners :)

Some REBOLers comment here: http://www.rebol.org/a...

2009-05-25T05:01:02.140-04:00

Some REBOLers comment here:
http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r?post=r3wp424x4064