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We've compiled a list of 10 free and paid alternatives to Red (Programming Language). The primary competitors include REBOL, Racket. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Red (Programming Language) and Odin, Object Pascal, Motti.NET (Programming Language). Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Software, Programming Languages.


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A fast, concise, readable, pragmatic and open sourced programming language.

Object Pascal
Free Open Source

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Free Open Source

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Lua
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Scala
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Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by http://alternativeto.net/software/rebol/.

Red (Programming Language) Platforms

tick-square Linux
tick-square Mac
tick-square Windows

Red (Programming Language) Overview

Red is a new programming language, strongly inspired by REBOL.

Main characteristics are:

-Functional, imperative and symbolic
-Prototype-based object support
-Homoiconic (Red is its own meta-language)
-Both statically and JIT-compiled to native code
-Concurrency and parallelism strong support (actors, parallel collections)
-Low-level system programming abilities through the built-in Red/System DSL
-High-level scripting and REPL console support
-Highly embeddable
-Low memory footprint, garbage collected
-Low disk footprint (< 1MB)

Red (Programming Language) Features

tick-square Expressive
tick-square Cross Compilation
tick-square Homoiconic
tick-square Functional Language
tick-square Compiles to native assembly code
tick-square Lightweight

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