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 started to use Rebol on January this year. With Rebol/view's powerful GUI and scripting capabilities, I quickly replaced my HTML, javascript and browser for my WEB-based data application. In my old developing environment, I used Frontpage for HTML editing, javascript to keep HTML page active. I always hated to see my well-designed WEB pages display differently in another user's WEB browser environment. Rebol resolves this problem for me. I am using Rebol's win95 skin for my GUI development. It looks and feels like VB and Visual C application. It is easy to develop and maintain. It is the best thing can ever happen to me for my software progamming career.