Interview with oofoe about REBOL, Forth, Decker, Janet and the VFx Industry

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Oofoe (sourcehut) is a REBOL-refugee comes from animation and now works on precision instrument software. He makes puzzles in Decker and games in Janet (using his Janet->JavaScript transpiler) and Racket and Racket and, again, Racket and Racket and even visual novels. In this interview, we discuss: DSL design exotic languages (REBOL, Forth, Janet) Decker industrial domains (VFx) Do you know of any resources to set up additional targets in %project.janet? This can be good, but what's the %? Oh, sorry... The % business is a holdover from REBOL that I took up with. They indicate file paths to the parser with a leading percent sign. So you can say things like write %survey.csv data and you don't need quotes around the path like most other languages. REBOL had something like 20+ types that the parser understood. REBOL was my first introduction to PEG (which led me to Janet...) Oh! Please shill REBOL! This is now an interview. REBOL had four things really going for it (in my opinion): A very simple, concise syntax, Built-in, first-class PEG (parsing expression grammars), An AMAZING declarative GUI library, And, between the docstring features and decompiler, it was self-documenting. Here