Gwion VS red

Compare Gwion vs red and see what are their differences.

red

Red is a next-generation programming language strongly inspired by Rebol, but with a broader field of usage thanks to its native-code compiler, from system programming to high-level scripting and cross-platform reactive GUI, while providing modern support for concurrency, all in a zero-install, zero-config, single ~1MB file! (by red)
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Gwion red
7 6
516 5,440
1.0% 0.7%
9.1 9.5
about 1 month ago 13 days ago
C Red
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Boost Software License 1.0
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Gwion

Posts with mentions or reviews of Gwion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.

red

Posts with mentions or reviews of red. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-17.
  • Red Programming Language
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
    Red seems to have similar challenges. They have their code on GitHub, but the Releases are confusing. They have 3 releases posted. The latest one is 5 years old. But the project is active. You can download from their site, but the version number isn’t obvious.

    From poking at the project, it looks interesting but not ready to really try out yet.

    https://github.com/red/red/releases

  • Is source code for RED available? I want to try it on macOS/Apple Silicon
    1 project | /r/redlang | 25 Jan 2023
  • Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 16 Jul 2021
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2021
    whoops, you are right, i missed that detail: https://github.com/red/red/issues/3412#issuecomment-39593686...

    i am watching red on the sidelines as i am waiting for it to become usable for my interests, so i am not tracking every detail.

    though i'd appreciate if you could use a less adversarial and demanding attitude. this is not appropriate for a Free Software and Open Source project, and it only serves to annoy the developers which reduces their motivation to work on the project.

    your complaints, even if they were acceptable, won't help your cause. at best they will be ignored. at worst they will slow progress down as developers are less motivated.

    it has been explained that the current compiler is not the final version, and as such, speedy static builds are simply not a development goal. and they should not be, because the goal is to rebuild the compiler, at which point this issue may be addressed if it is important enough. when that happens, then it is time to make a case for static builds. until then things will go faster if you could stay out of the developers ways.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Gwion and red you can also consider the following projects:

kobalt - Hobby programming language

Odin - Odin Programming Language

REXS - A language for writing regular expressions.

nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.

NimForUE - Nim plugin for UE5 with native performance, hot reloading and full interop that sits between C++ and Blueprints. This allows you to do common UE workflows like for example to extend any UE class in Nim and extending it again in Blueprint if you wish so without restarting the editor. The final aim is to be able to do in Nim what you can do in C++

Rebol3 - Source code for the Rebol [R3] interpreter

LoLa - LoLa is a small programming language meant to be embedded into games.

mint-lang - :leaves: A refreshing programming language for the front-end web

Gwion - :musical_note: strongly-timed musical programming language [Moved to: https://github.com/Gwion/Gwion]

ol - Otus Lisp (Ol in short) is a purely* functional dialect of Lisp.

emojicode - 😀😜🔂 World’s only programming language that’s bursting with emojis

community - The central place for Red users scripts