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B4X
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Create easy, fast cross-platform views with less code
B4XUI custom views are designed, by Erel and other forum members, exactly with this in mind; custom views that act and feel exactly the same no matter what platform you target.
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Java-dependent Desktop Development
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Powerful general purpose programming tool
As mentioned in its website, "With B4X, anyone who wants to, can develop real-world solutions."
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Only for Windows
The IDE, while very handy, only runs on Windows. If you want to code on Mac or Linux, you have to install it on a virtual machine. But you can debug your app by running it on the target OS.
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A very active forum where you can find any issue you have, and quick answers to new ones
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The documentation and examples and tutorials are not up to date
The documentation and examples and tutorials are not up to date.
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A highly motivated program author who is very active in the forums
Erel Uziel is simply the most pro-active Soft-Creator/Forum Manager you will ever come across. If it has not yet been asked & answered, just ask and you will be answered withing minutes, and thanks to it being a trully international forum, this is achieved 24h/7d.
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For BASIC language lovers
Lots of people are not fans of BASIC-like languages. Enjoyment of B4X, may depend on having a background or affinity for BASIC.
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Very easy to use and powerful for IoT
Support for Bluetooth/BLE, MQTT, TCP/UDP, Serial, NFC, Websockets, HTTP/2 across platforms makes it the ideal tool for IoT projects.
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Can still need deep knowledge of Java
Attempts to provide BASIC-like language that is more comfortable for a certain demographic of users, but various circumstances will still require knowledge of Java. "No free lunch".
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Live code swapping
A huge productivity boost when you can run your apps on the devices and make code changes real time without needing to recompile.
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Lack of B4W real Web app
Erel needs to make a real Web app designer.
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No complexities compared with other tools
No need to learn JAVA, C+, PHP, or any other complementary languages in order to achieve exactly what you need.
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The best all round
Produces highly optimised end results. Easy to use and quick to learn. When you know how to produce an Android app you near enough know how to produce an IOS app. The fact that there are subtle differences between writing for different platforms is a huge plus - those differences help optimise your code and they're really not difficult to wrap your head round.
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Erel has much passion for his tool
The speed of answer topics is amazing.
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Many informative video tutorials
The tutorials help beginners as well as more experienced programmers grasping important concepts.
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Many code examples of fully working apps for free
The Forum is filled with many code examples of fully working apps for free. Code snippets, animation, different type of views etc. can be easily downloaded and used in your own app.
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Large user community
Over the years it has built up a very active user community that is very involved in the evolution of B4X. In their forums you can find any answer to your questions, and if it is not there, they will answer you.
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RAD
VERY Rapid Application Development, with tons of pro features.
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Tightly integrated framework
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Almost everything is free and complete
Except the IDE for iOS. Even so it's very cheap.
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Raspberry Pi, Arduino
License:
Apache License 2.0
Languages:
B4X
Dev platforms:
Windows, Mac (via VM), Linux (via VM), Web
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Quasar Framework
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Uses Vue.js 2.0
Vue 3.x available as a plugin.
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Developed by a single person
Statistically, apps being developed by a single person can be gone without warning.
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Good documentation and coding samples
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Massive suite of well test & optimized widgets
Instant rebuild for SPA, PWA, Cordova or Electron with Material/iOS Themes.
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Designed from the outset for desktop & mobile
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Can build/test your PWA with/without PWA wrapper
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Supports server side rendering (SSR) like Nuxt + SSR/PWA
"Icon genie" builds app icons and splash images for platforms selected.
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Ability to add custom server side code when using SSR
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Web
License:
MIT
Mobile targets:
Android, Blueberry, iOS, Windows Phone, Web
Supported languages:
Javascript, Typescript
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MonoDevelop
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Free
MonoDevelop is free to download and use.
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No longer supported (deprecated since 2018)
Starting with version 4.x, Xamarin rebranded MonoDevelop as Xamarin Studio, but only for the Windows version of the IDE. Stable release 7.6.9.22 / September 21, 2018
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Starting up this program doesn't take as long as starting Visual Studio windows 98
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Bad formatting
MonoDevelop doesn't offer much in terms of autocompletion and code formatting. Most of the time the automatic formatting that MonoDevelop does is annoying and not really compliant with C# guidelines.
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The MonoDevelop version that ships with Unity is several versions behind
The version of MonoDevelop that ships with Unity is several versions behind the main MonoDevelop branch. It also gets updated very rarely so any annoying bugs that it may have take a lot of time to get fixed.
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Platforms:
Windows Linux Mac
Supported languages:
C#, F#, Visual Basic .NET, Vala
Visual GUI Builder:
Yes
Stable release:
7.6.9.22 / September 21, 2018
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Flutter
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Open source
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Still in development
According to the website, Flutter is still in its early stages of development.
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Great developer tools debug/hotreload/analyser
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Based on Dart language
Dart is a Java like language, easy to learn and startup fast for millions of Java developers. BUT if you have to learn it ... it's a con.
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Based on Dart language
Dart is a Java like language, easy to learn and startup fast for millions of Java developers.
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Dart is unpopular and never gained serious community traction like Kotlin or Java
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A single codebase for iOS AND Android
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Does not support 32-bit iOS devices
If you plan on targeting iPhone 5, 5C or earlier, you can forget about Flutter.
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Fast
The developer's goal is to allow people to make apps running at 120 FPS.
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Google has a bad history with product loyalty
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Dev platforms:
Windows, Mac and Linux
Desktop targets:
announced Windows
Mobile targets:
Android and iOS
Popular Language Bindings:
Dart
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Tcl
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Standard library
Unlike *sh Tcl has a rich standard library.
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Sane quoting rules
Unlike in sh you don't need to quote your variable substitutions ('"$1"'). Expanding of arguments occurs mostly explicit and if yet expected in-place (e. g. using eval or subst) it follows strict and well clear rules. So exec test $argv would execute test with single argument. And appending {*} before $argv would execute test with all arguments (list expansion).
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Cross-platform
With a little care you can have the same script work on Linux, *BSD, OS X and Windows.
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Widely available
You can expect a reasonably recent version of Tcl to either installed or available in the repositories of any popular open source *nix.
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Everything is a string
Tcl can operate at the same level of abstraction as the POSIX shell, which makes it easier to manipulate the output of other programs.
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Tk and Expect
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Standalone packages
Tcl enables easy deployment through self-contained binaries known as starpacks.
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Rich scripting capabilities on a single line
Want to run something 5 times? Here you go: set i 0; time { puts done-[incr i] } 5 If you need real conditional cycle? Not a problem: for {set ready 0; set i 1} {$i <= 100 && !$ready} {incr i} { if {[exec do-some-thing] eq "ready" } {set ready 1} } Want to measure performance of something or repeat it max 300 times and not longer than 1 seconds? Very simple: timerate { after 20 } 1000 300 How about notifying yourself when some http-server is back online? Sure thing: while {[catch { close [socket localhost 80] }]} { after 1000 }; puts "\7\7\7ONLINE!" And you can do it also fully asynchronously using events etc.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
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Codename One
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High performance
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Open source
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Highly customizable
By utilizing lightweight component architecture and the built in graphical designer and theming options you are able to customize a good looking app on any platform.
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Java 8 support
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Works with all IDEs
Works with NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc.
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Multi-platform development environments (via build server)
You can even use Linux desktops to build native iOS apps, no need for a Mac.
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Vibrant & helpful community
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Attractive pricing
It is possible to build production grade apps even with the free version. Pricing is decent when compared to competitors like Xamarin.
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License:
GPL with Classpath Exception, allows you to build proprietary applications
Languages:
Java, Kotlin
Dev platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
Desktop targets:
Windows, Mac, Linux
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ASP.NET Core
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Fast and getting faster
Thanks to breakthroughs in ROSLYN compiler and the efforts of the .NET COre developer team, code written in C# can reach speeds just a step behind C++.
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Microsoft environment
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Multi platform
Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).
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JSON optimization
In .NET Core 2.1 and 3.0, new APIs are added that make it possible to write JSON APIs that require less memory, using Span<T> and UTF8 strings, and improve throughput of applications like Kestrel, ASP.NET Core web server. See also Utf8JsonReader.
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Tutorials and documentation quality
Both microsoft and 3rd party tutorials are mostly of high quality and encourage you to use the industry best-practices.
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Built-in middleware
Built-in middleware featuring: Authentication, Cookie policy, Health Check, MVC, Session etc.
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Hosting
Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.
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Ease of Use
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Security
It is a very secure platform.
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Tooling
Both VS and VSCode are powerful free IDEs that are well integrated with ASP.net Core. VS Community also allows for commercial use for projects with less than 5 developers.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker
Written in:
C#
Default ORM:
Entity Framework
Visual GUI Builder:
Yes
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React Native
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Allows you to develop native apps
React Native allows you to create native apps by generating native views with JavaScript instead of using a web wrapper.
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If core team doesn't use a certain feature, it's not developed
Whenever there's functionality you need that they don't use in their apps, it's not going to get developed by them, even if it's obvious it should be in the core. They always say to either submit a PR or create a separate module.
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Large, supportive community
Despite being such a young framework (early 2015), the support for React Native grew quickly. There is a forum, active tag on Stackoverflow and many other ways to get help from the community.
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Steep learning curve
React Native is not the most beginner-friendly framework for creating mobile apps with JavaScript. It requires that the developer know React, which is known to have a steep learning curve.
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Backed by Facebook
Facebook writes their mobile apps in React Native so the code base gets pretty thoroughly used in some highly demanding scenarios.
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Many existing JS libraries are not usable on React Native; not exactly a 1-to-1 experience to writing React either
Example: Library that provides a full calendar with agenda view. In the end it's much easier to develop in actual JavaScript with a solution such as Ionic, especially if your app needs to work well on the desktop.
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More predictable control of the state
The one way data flow, makes it more predictable and easy to control.
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React native only supports react which is getting old
React native is only based on react which is getting old. An old tech developer can't take much breaking changes so it gets more patchs. There is a limit, and react is too verbose and complex. better alternatives available today.
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Kotlin
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Great tooling support
Since Kotlin is made by Jetbrains (the developers of IntelliJ IDEA) so it stands to reason that the IntelliJ support for Kotlin is also great. Besides that, Kotlin also works well with existing Java tools such as Eclipse, Maven, Gradle, Android Studio, etc...
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May be hard for programmers already used to imperative style to learn functional programming from Kotlin
Since Kotlin does not enforce any particular paradigms and is not purely functional, it can be pretty easy to fall back to imperative programming habits if a programmer comes from an imperative background.
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Easy adoption for existing Java programmers
Kotlin runs on the JVM and Java interoperability has been one of the main objectives since the language was born. It runs everywhere Java does; web servers, mobile devices (Android), and desktop applications. It also works with all the major tools in the Java ecosystem like Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Spring Boot, etc. All of this makes adoption extremely easy even for existing Java projects. On top of this there's also ensured Type safety and less boilerplate code needed.
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The need for Java interoperability has forced some limitations
The need to make Kotlin interoperable with Java has caused some unintuitive limitations to the language design.
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Easy to learn if you have prior programming experience
Kotlin's syntax is extremely easy to understand. The language can be picked up in a few hours just by reading the language reference.
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No runtime overhead
The standard library is relatively small and tight. It mostly consists of focused extensions of the Java standard library and as such adds no additional runtime overhead to existing Java projects.
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Officially supported for Android development
Starting with version 3.0 of Android Studio, Kotlin support will be built-in. This means that it's now easier than ever to use Kotlin for existing Android projects or even start writing Android apps only with Kotlin from scratch. This also means that Kotlin and Kotlin plugins for Android Studio will be fully supported in the future and their likelihood of being abandoned is quite small since Google is fully embracing the language for their Android ecosystem (alongside Java and C++).
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Low-risk adoption for existing Java codebases
Since it has such a good interoperability with Java, Java libraries, and Java tools. It can be adopted for an existing Java codebase at little to no cost. The codebase can be converted from Java to Kotlin little by little without ever disrupting the functionality of the application itself.
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Does not impose a particular philosophy of programming
It's not overly OOP like Java and it does not enforce strict functional paradigms either.
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Is built to solve industrial problems
Kotlin has been designed and built by developers who have an industrial background and not an academic one. As such, it tries to solve issues mostly found in industrial settings. For example, the Kotlin type system helps developers avoid null pointer exceptions. Reasearch languages usually do not have null at all, but APIs and large codebases usually need null.
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Current stable version:
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Xojo
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Easy to use
Easy to make compiled native apps.
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Subscription-based/Not free
Using this product you're betting the company will still be around. If they get bought out by an enterprise that wants to use the tech internally, all they need to do is stop offering subscriptions and suddenly you're scrambling to rebuild your entire app on other technology.
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No Android support
They plan to eventually support Android, but for now, they only support iOS.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Pi, Web,iOS
Visual GUI Builder:
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Red
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Not production ready
Red is still under development and not considered stable.
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Simple toolchain
Other languages have complex, multi-step setups that beginners often get stuck on. Red has no installer, no setup, no dependencies*, just a single small (~1MB) command-line executable with both the compiler and repl. On Windows, you don't even have to launch executable from the command line--it has a GUI-console.
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Still in beta
It mostly works. It's good enough for building usable applications, but some planned features are missing.
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Very simple syntax
Red syntax is a lot like Rebol. It's easier than most languages for beginners to pick up.
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Both low and high-level
Red has low enough access to do systems programming, but it's expressive enough for high-level scripting.
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Low cognitive load
Red has very simple syntax that's easy to learn. It gets out of your way and lets you think about the problem instead, enhancing productivity.
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