World: r3wp

Done a quick implementation test on SWITCH, it seems to be working 
fine.

(will be back in an hour)

I think that the addition of a default keyword in CASE would be an 
improvement.

Ok, runtime errors added to both SWITCH and CASE, raised when no 
clause matches. No change were necessary for CASE.

Peter: I followed the same syntax as REBOL for CASE, but I am unsure 
that adding 'default keyword would be better. On one side, you have 
a better compatibility with REBOL, so easier for all REBOL old timers, 
on the other hand, we break compatibility (on syntax level only), 
but have a more consistent syntax inside Red/System.


Also the CASE semantics do not require a special keyword for making 
a default clause.

Need some time to think about it.

Silly question: Does C-string mean that it's a C-compatible string 
type and whether there will be other string types in the future?

In short "yes". C-String in Red/System is simply a null terminated 
list of bytes. As I understand, strings in Red will support unicode 
but Nenad hasn't decided what form they will take yet.

If the compiler is only looking for 'default inside a switch statement, 
a good solution may be to #define defaiult as true in common.reds 
and then I can write

case [ a  = 1 [b: 1] default [b: 0]]

and old REBOLers can write 

case [ a  = 1 [b: 1] truet [b: 0]]

truet -> true

On the other hand, even if the syntax changed and default was a keyword, 
the old REBOLers could still write

case [ a  = 1 [b: 1] true [b: 0]]

and belt-and-braces types could write

case [ a  = 1 [b: 1] true [b: 0] default [b: 0]]  ;-)

Topaz SWITCH changed since then.

You have SWITCH and SWITCH-DEFAULT now.

Other strings in the future: for Red/System, possible but very low 
priority for now. Red will have a R3-like string! datatype with Unicode 
support.

Red/Systerm ARM port on OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25468/Red_System_Language_Gets_OS_X_ARM_Android_Backends

Kaj did it again. :-) Thanks a lot! I hope that the article comments 
won't be too harsh. :-)

It has little to do with Syllable this time, but I'm sure our Syllable 
house troll will still manage to make an appearance. Sorry for that

No comments until now, only one 'like' ...

That's typical when people don't know what to think about it - which 
is typically the case with REBOL and Syllable topics :-)

There are seven retweets, though, and the page view counter on the 
Red site has suddenly broken down, but last night shortly after publication 
it had already gone up by two thousand

The "Like" was me.

Cool, thanks :-)

The counter works again, and there are about 4000 extra views so 
far

Note that there are many links in the article, so not even all readers 
will click to the Red site

Oh, there are eight retweets, some by people with many followers

So far 2500 page views today, 1300 yesterday.

When Red 1.0 is out, I promise 10k page-views from China. :-)

Why not now? :-)

Basics of sales: you have to present three times before you make 
a sale

Current counter: 3500 page views today.

Around 450 are coming from my last news on freecode (ex-freshmeat): 
http://freecode.com/projects/red-language.

Forgot that my news was from 26 december, so all current traffic 
is from OSNews.

Mac isn't tagged as an OS on Freecode

Thanks for noticing, I've added it (should be online by tomorrow).

I did research on the atexit() issue. The situation is horribly convoluted

I made an implementation for Syllable Desktop based on __cxa_atexit. 
You could try that on ARM Debian

However, x86 GNU/Linux does have atexit. Also, the cURL binding imports 
atexit through the C library binding, so if cURL programs load but 
GTK programs don't, that's sinister

What I found for sure is that the Android Bionic C library has an 
atexit implementation

Another thing is that when I actually try atexit, it works but ends 
with a crash

Donation page opened: http://www.red-lang.org/p/donations.html

http://fantom.org

http://chapel.cray.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4II94h6-IFY-- TWiT about ZMQ.


At 13:42 he starts talking about funding / open source / community 
/ financial model -- the often asked question about open soruce + 
making a living in Rebol / Red / Topaz / World ... "Open source is 
a very agressive competetive strategy, a little team can attack a 
big market"

oops .. sorry, because of 2 links from Kaj I thought this is the 
links channel

Yeah, Pieter is in Texas these days

http://www.osnews.com/story/25481/Developers_Must_Unite_For_Mobile_App_Portability

For russian readers, article about Red: http://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/7209300


72 comments... I don't know if it's globally positive or not, I guess 
that skepticism would dominate, which is understandable. As Kaj said, 
you need to present three times before making a sale. ;-)

It would be probably best to stop reporting RED is related to REBOL, 
and introduce its paradigms as a new rocket science :-)

ditto for Syllable. But I am not sure OSNews.com would publish language 
alpha state news, if not OS related. I tried to report on R3 alpha 
and some milestones, and it was refused ...

I'm slowly disconnecting them. The current article wasn't about Syllable 
anymore, but Red has a track record on OSNews now :-)

I don't know if they would report on it without any connection, though. 
There are simply too many languages. It must be notable somehow