REBOL Technologies today announced its plan to expand development and support for the Apple Macintosh OS X operating system. Beginning with OS X Jaguar (version 10.2), REBOL will port its entire line of products, including View and Pro products as well as Command, SDK (Software Developers Toolkit) and IOS (X Internet Operating System).
Rebol to be Released for MacOSX
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I’m tellin’ ya, this is the Year Of OS X!
I played around with rebol until I found ruby… im telling ya ruby is good.
though I liked rebols unique gramma feature.
… and I am telling ya, no matter what you think, there is probably not easier way to build UI than Rebol View + VID 🙂
But that is not the point. I think that OSX fans could be happy another tool is available on their platform. And it is not only a tool, it is kind of sw platform itself. Rebol IOS or AltME are worth to have for each platform imo.
-pekr-
As far as I’m concerned, REBOL’s main problem is its licensing scheme and the odd bug. Technology-wise it beats more than a fair share of script and programming languages and I wouldn’t want to be without it. Good for OS X to finally have it onboard.
Sadly, the aforementioned problems prevents me from using it on a wider scale.
I can’t wait for Rebol.Net
Hi Lennart,
it is too easy to claim odd bug without naming it. RT agreed their tech support sucks and from November they do take care once again properly to bug fixes. Can you please send me an email regarding that bug so I could submit it to feedback? What is the bug that you can’t find workaround to?
Thanks,
-pekr-
The lack of support for the Mac platform has bothered me for a while now. I’m glad to see RT address this issue, best of luck to them. It also adds incentive for me to adopt the Mac as my primary platform.
I’ll be interested to see if VID evolves to blend in better with modern GUIs (WinXP, OS X, etc.). REBOL’s default GUI widgets are the kind that only a Unix sysadmin could love.
RT has followed the same path Sun did with Java (focusing on WORA, releasing non-native look & feel widgets). I realize RT is on a quest that is larger than mere commercial success, but c’mon already. RT should provide tools that will satisfy both programmers AND mainstream users.
native widgets look is imo trade off and a stopper for rebol. My users prefer and always ask – hey, what is that – it simply drag their attention and I don’t think they are less productive or so …
Anyway, VID is gonna get skin support, so you will get your native OSx look …
cheers,
-pekr-
I like the concept of Rebol, but its UI is IMHO very immature. No keyboard support, the UI looks quite ugly (the third-party skinning dialect will help some), etc. It does have a lot of potential though.
What, does RT have money to burn or something ?!?
Anyone that cares to do web scripting can use Perl or Python (or cURL for simple web fetching).
REBOL’s best bet would be to provide a cross-platform scripting language that can be used to build professional-looking apps, not drablets. Show me a REBOL product that can stand next to wxWindows/Eclipse/Qt and I might be interested. It would take that much for me to consider a closed, proprietary source vendor.
If REBOL has gone this far with that GUI kit, it’s clear to me that those folks just don’t get it. That minimalist, insular mindset might play well in the Honeycomb Hideout, but it doesn’t cut it for app development.
I would be really interested in your knowledge of Rebol. I saw “professiona” apps sold for 50K USD to corporate area, written in Java, which UI was just terrrible.
You simply don’t understand REBOL dialecting concept and so you think you need monster environments to produce quality app.
I can assure you though, that those developers, knowing rebol rather well will run circless around your dev. time and the result is gonna be 600 KB self-encapsulated app, including incremental upgrade on-line mechanism.
And what is that crap about web scripting about? There is plenty of languages, you forgot to mention PHP e.g. Those using Perl nowadays simply don’t get it, sorry 🙂
Two examples of more robust apps – REBOL IOS and AltME (http://www.altme.com )
Cheers,
-pekr-
Daniel, please 🙂 What would environment without keyboard support be good for? 🙂
We know how to even improve keyboard support, but that is not area which bothers us nowadays, really …
-pekr-