Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 22nd Oct 2001 18:16 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews 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.
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drawbacks
by P on Tue 23rd Oct 2001 19:10 UTC

Ok, I'd like to do some application development (powerful net features and simple GUI's) but.. there doesn't appear to be any way to do type checking. This is a big drawback. Everything is implicit types and I can't enforce them. Yes, I'm sure it could be made to work, but.. debug through type checking is pretty important. Debug environment in general is also pretty important. I learned to program ages ago on an interpreter, but 'modern' runtime debug features are still handy. Docs for some of the more obscure dependencies seem sketchy. i.e. should this modification to a UI element go before or after the others.. some combinations just don't work. Plus.. I truly do need to share some C code definitions due to the need to talk to a deeply embedded device. Hesitating because of these issues for starters.