The biggest draw with Red for me was how quickly you can put together a simple GUI program. IIRC, you just need to download the GUI version of Red, there are no extra dependencies or framework. That said, I didn’t get to play with the GUI aspect of it much in exercism’s exercises. I suspect the test runners wouldn’t have supported it.

The syntax definitely took some getting used to. I found the official documentation a bit lacking, but combined with Red by Example…and peeking at other people’s code 🙃, I was able to get somewhere with it.

A few links to get you started, if you like:

• https://www.red-lang.org/
• https://exercism.org/tracks/red/about (exercism’s description of Red helped convinced me to try it)
• https://www.red-by-example.org/

Hope that’s useful!