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Blog about Rye language development

Rye is an experimental, you can call it a toy, programming language still very much in development. I am not worried about doing everything or anything right at this point. Who determines what is right anyway? The status quo.

There is nothing wrong with current state of things per se, but it's been and it's being explored enough without me. I'm also not saying that Rye is that much different, better or anything ...


Up to this point I was developing Rye mostly in private. Now that I roughly built the last two ideas I had for the first version (kinds and converters), I decided to start writing this blog. Maybe some odd of you will find it interesting :). I am still mostly designing the language, the implementation is just something I could test the ideas with, but first version of it will also slowly need to come together.

Visit the work in progress website for more info, code and links. Go code for interpreter is on github.


I was posting in developments screenshots / demos on a very small FB group for the last year. I will post all those images on the website too, or maybe some on the blog, for some historical reference, while all future updates will land here.

The image was in the last FB post. I made a crude emacs mode and shell for rye.


The code on the right uses a lot of latest features of the language, and doesn't all work yet. My current goal is to make it all work.

Thanks for pushing me to put code on github, which resulted in first wip website, docs and more active development from me goes to @otobrglez !

Let the cereal be with you :)

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Less variables, more flows example vs Python

In the last blogpost ( Less variables, more flows ) I wrote a quick practical script I needed. It was an uncommon combination of CGI, two GET requests with Cookies and a POST request with Authorization header. I really like practical random/dirty problems, rather than ideal - made up problems to test the language. To get a sense of comparison I rewrote the example 2 times while removing specific Rye features. But that comparison is meaningless to a person that doesn't know Rye or at least Rebol already. So I went on fiverr and made a request for a Python script with these requirements. I got a nicely written Python script that uses functions for each step. To be more comparable, I rewrote the Rye code to a similar structure. Below is the result ... For a next step, it would be interesting, to extract a little simpler example out and add error handling. With Rye-s specific failure handling, I think the difference would become even greater. You can find Rye on github .

Ryelang - controlled file serving example and comparison to Python

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Receiving emails with Go's smtpd and Rye

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