> Yeah, I have no idea why Rebol and Red aren't more popular
Rebol died (for all intents and purposes) because it stayed proprietary without a large enough proprietary market too long, and good enough open source languages took the niches it could have had and built out robust ecosystems that it never developed.
Red has been disadvantaged by the ecosystem consideration, and hasn't found a killer focus that gets people over that in enough mass. They tried chasing crypto for that...
Rebol died (for all intents and purposes) because it stayed proprietary without a large enough proprietary market too long, and good enough open source languages took the niches it could have had and built out robust ecosystems that it never developed.
Red has been disadvantaged by the ecosystem consideration, and hasn't found a killer focus that gets people over that in enough mass. They tried chasing crypto for that...