Exciting! Was Rebol user for years, dabbled in Factor. Picolisp too. All great for interactive use, but the latter two seemed to have more learning curve than I could commit to. Eyeballed R3 and Red-lang but went with Python 2, then 3. Significant whitespace has not grown on me. I prefer my own idiosyncratic indentation convention. Watching your project closely.
Thank you. Rye author here (I posted this link on lobste.rs and it got here).
It seems we have very similar paths. I was also or still am in a way a Rebol developer, although it's more or less abandoned. For few years I was in Factor world and loved it, but eventually returned to Rebol. I was also waiting and hoping for R3, and later Red to take Rebol's place. Red is moving forward constantly and I congratulate them on their work, but the parts I needed the most were moving the least (IO for example).
I used Python for many projects in between, especially where I couldn't Rebol, but it always seemed too imperative to me and I like the rebol/factor/lisp approach where things like lines and whitespace doesn't matter.
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It seems we have very similar paths. I was also or still am in a way a Rebol developer, although it's more or less abandoned. For few years I was in Factor world and loved it, but eventually returned to Rebol. I was also waiting and hoping for R3, and later Red to take Rebol's place. Red is moving forward constantly and I congratulate them on their work, but the parts I needed the most were moving the least (IO for example).
I used Python for many projects in between, especially where I couldn't Rebol, but it always seemed too imperative to me and I like the rebol/factor/lisp approach where things like lines and whitespace doesn't matter.
Thanks and thanks to the OP!