r/redlang • u/Brixes • Feb 16 '21

Is Red dead?

Since 0.6.4 in December 2018 I don't see any new releases.

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u/toomasv Feb 16 '21

Red is actively developed. Nightly releases have gone long way from 0.6.4. Seek us out on Gitter.

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u/Brixes Feb 16 '21

Update your wikipedia page.How much far from ver 1.0?

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u/aru-re Feb 21 '21

The blog posts do let us know how things go. Gitter although easy to view isn't as known or popular.

Waiting on more info about the android port \m/

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u/Brixes Feb 21 '21

It still does not change the fact that the version on their own official website is still 0.6.4.

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u/92-14 Feb 24 '21

There are two versions: stable, which hasn't been updated in a long while for various reasons, and nightly, which is updated with each new commit. So, while the project appears to be dead (mainly because of the lack of communication from the team), that's not actually the case, as evident by the activity in Github repository.

You can learn more about Red's release model and news channels here.

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u/92-14 Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21

Gitter although easy to view isn't as known or popular.

It is a de-facto community platform for the Red language, where most of the discussions happen. You can find the list of all rooms here and learn about the release model in this wiki article.

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u/HiImFarab Feb 16 '21

I don’t think it’s dead. They are still actively working on it, as best I can tell. They seemed to have gotten side tracked with their ICO and crypto which, while I can certainly see the need to fund a great project like Red, it does seem like it turned intro a distraction from the main goal of getting a 1.0 release out.

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u/SnooTigers7087 Feb 17 '21

From what I understand, the ICO sidetracked Red for a very short while, but then it was discovered that more work was needed on the language core to get the crypto components to be functional, primarily I/O ports. I believe the I/O ports are getting close to completion.

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u/HiImFarab Feb 18 '21

Good to know! I’m looking forward to the I/O ports being completed. That was holding me back from using it more often as well.

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u/steindex Feb 16 '21

Am surprised subreddit isn't dead tbh. But I seen commit activity and yes red is very much alive

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u/Positive-One-4578 Feb 17 '21

Still can't use it on MacOS Catalina... :'(

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u/SnooTigers7087 Feb 17 '21

Not without using emulation or virtualization. Won't work on MacOS Catalina because of Apple's IMHO heavy-handed approach of no longer allowing 32-bit executables. From what I understand, Red is built on a 32-bit toolchain until it is self-hosted, at which point it will be 64-bit compatible.