non-update of RedyCode
- Posted by ryanj 3 days ago
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I want to start by saying I absolutely love the concept and syntax of Euphoria. Once I realized how amazing and powerful sequences are, I was totally convinced that this was the language for me. It can be used to emulate any other programming paradigm (procedural, functional, object-oriented, etc.) and has so many ways to optimize performance one you understand how the interpreter works.
I've been using Euphoria for 20+ years. I put so much effort into making a Euphoria IDE (RedyCode), which uses a 100% pure Euphoria widget library, which only uses my own hand-built minimal C wrappers for win32 API to create windows, respond to events, and draw graphics to windows. So the entire widget library in "redylib" is written from scratch in pure Euphoria!
If you download RedyCode, you'll see it includes it's own source code as an example project 
so you can build/compile/run RedyCode from itself! Including the entire widget library and even the raw win32api wrappers.
To this day, I still use my 2019 version of RedyCode for all of my Euphoria projects (one major project I still use for my day-job), plus viewing or editing other types of files such as txt, bat, c, cpp, xml, json, ini, html, css, php, etc. https://www.redy-project.org/ despite the fact that RedyCode 1.0 has a few known bugs, quirks, and limitations (which I have learned to work around lol). I do use other text editors, of course, depending on what specific things I need to do. Use the right tool for the job, right (sometimes my RedyCode is a useful tool for certain text editing jobs.)
On one hand, I've very proud of the fact that I was able to write a pure-Euphoria editor with very specific features for Euphoria projects. But on the other hand, I feel like I've wasted so much time and energy investing in a dead-end programming language. Although I had so many ideas for RedyCode 2.0, I gave up on the whole project, because the language itself hasn't kept up with any of the modern requirements at all. I don't know what to do about it.
Sadly, I feel like Euphoria has been left in the dust compared to pretty much all other modern languages.
