REBOL is a powerful software technology (ever thought that you could write a full blown GUI Instant Messenger in
only 7 kb of source code?) designed from the ground up to enable a new era of distributed Internet applications. The technology provides a ubiquitous, lightweight model of distributed computing that operates across all types of computer systems. REBOL is a true distributed computing architecture. Applications and data become distributed across all devices. REBOL is completely device independent, so it does not matter what operating system or hardware is being used. Every system of the Internet becomes an independent resource that can process and communicate information. The REBOL kernel currently runs on more than 40 different operating systems -- everything from large Sun Solaris servers, to Windows and Macintosh PCs, to Linux, BeOS, down to CE handheld devices. And it is here to revolutionize the Internet, by introducing the X Internet (also called as 'XNet') through the REBOL Internet Operating System (IOS). Read more of what Carl Sassenrath, Rebol Tech's CTO and founder, has to say about the future, Rebol and the race against Microsoft's .NET Services.
I've not given a damn for programming since the death of the 16-bit era. Rebol, however, revived my interest. I use it for countless work and play related projects where I bang out quick and working applications in a fraction of the time someone might take in other languages. Probably my killer app is an IRC bot that I've constantly added on to since last year. I can quite safely say that no other IRC bot comes near doing the whacking stuff mine does. If anyone comes up with a cool bit of data that can be mined off the web or elsewhere on the Internet, I can add it in minutes. Rebol is the best kept secret of enthusiast programmers that like to get jobs done quick.