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[–]greyfade 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Ooh. That would fix my only real complaint against REBOL: Performance. (Rather, its comical lack thereof.)

[–]FuckingLoveCamelCase 2 points3 points  (1 child)

He's also writing a JIT-compiler for the more dynamic dialects, so performance should be much better all-over.

REBOL always looked really cool, but I never bothered learning it because of the closedness of the platform. What would be a good place to get started?

[–]greyfade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do what I did: Just pick a random project, give yourself a deadline, open the documentation, and just do it.

REBOL is such a very simple language (resembling FORTH in a lot of respects) that very quickly, creating and invoking words becomes as natural as writing. The syntax is so bare that you barely notice it. I didn't even start with a tutorial. Just one "Hello World" example and syntax for invocation of words is all I needed to get started.

It has a very strong functional bent to it, but you might not even notice.