I hate new DUB config format

[lobo via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 09:43:24 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> Red is not Rebol2 compatible - it's outright impossible to have 
> a single script file that'll run without errors on both Rebol2 
> and Red. The reason is that Rebol2 requires the first thing in 
> the file to be a `REBOL` preamble, while Red requires it to be 
> a `Red` preamble(though it's generous enough to allow a shebang 
> before it). Since you can only have one preamble, and it can't 
> be both `REBOL` and `Red`, I refuse to call them compatible 
> even if every Rebol2 command can be copied to a Red script and 
> run in there!
>

Meh, beyond s/Rebol/Red all my R2 code runs with Red.

> At any rate, please don't use any Rebol dialect in DUB(or for 
> anything else, in that matter. Just - don't use it). Many 
> languages have awkward quirks, but Rebol seems to be a 
> collection of awkward quirks with a programming language 
> somtimes accidentally hiding in between, created by someone who 
> thought Perl is too readable and shell scripts have too strict 
> type systems.

Actually I find Rebol has less quirks than most languages. It 
does have one alien looking syntax though.

bye,
lobo