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Language design essays, polyglot perspectives, and deep dives into what makes Red tick.

June 15, 2026philosophy

Why Red is different, and why that matters

Most languages add features. Red removes assumptions. Here's what happens when you start from a blank slate and ask: what does a programming language actually need to be?

June 1, 2026dialects

PARSE: the dialect that makes parsers trivial

Writing a parser in most languages means choosing a library, learning its API, and fighting its abstractions. In Red, PARSE is the language. This is what that looks like in practice.

May 18, 2026systems

The one-binary philosophy

Shipping software has become absurdly complicated. Docker images, runtime dependencies, package managers. Red ships as a single executable under 1MB. Here's why that's a feature, not a limitation.

May 5, 2026learning

Red for polyglots: what you'll unlearn

If you know Python, JavaScript, or Lisp, Red will feel familiar and alien at the same time. The concepts map — but the mental model doesn't. Here's what to unlearn first.

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