Red Lang goes blockchain
I like Red, and I have been following it. I dabbled with Rebol back in my Amiga days, but not much. Red is a nice batteries-included, small, Lispy-forth language in my perception.<p>I am sticking with my Lisps (SBCL, Racket, Emacs Lisp, Shen, and Wasp Lisp) for now, and my beloved J [2], but I love the size of the whole Red&#x2F;Red System environment. I think it is going to take off.<p>I know Naned, the man behind Red, was CEO of Fullstack Technologies, and it was based in Beijing after an initial $500k VC funding round from Chinese VCs [1].<p>Curiously, I predict a bunch of conspiracy theory people to relate Red = Communism, Blockchain&#x2F;ICO&#x2F;Coins = Socialized currency, and a decentralized internet running DAPPs to dilute the USA&#x27;s currernt juice in the internet all with a connection back to China, but I am ecstatic about a distributed internet that cannot be censored like it is in China, or in less obvious ways in the US. I missed the Bitcoin buy-in when it was selling at $200-something, but I always knew in my readings that the blockchain is its secret sauce. Aside from the energy expenditure, I like the concept. How can it, or can it become energy efficient, but still stay difficult to mine to work out both ways? Seems like it will not be possible. You cannot make it easy for everyone, and hard enough to have value...<p><pre><code>  [1]  http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.red-lang.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;dream-big-work-hard-and-make-it-happen.html

  [2]  jsoftware.com</code></pre>