Nostr is the REBOL / Red-lang of decentralized networks.
They both prefer a bunch of built-in types (“kinds”). Interesting philosophical choice.
Where most languages have:
"bob@example.com"
"https://example.com/foo";
"2026-09-14"
"$25.00"
"192.168.1.1"
"foo.txt"
Red-lang and REBOL have:
bob@example.com ; email!
https://example.com ; url!
14-Sep-2026 ; date!
$25.00 ; money!
192.168.1.1 ; tuple!
%foo.txt ; file!
tekne / τέχνη
npub12a…rrdyd
2026-09-14 16:15:56 UTC
Author Public Key
npub12a77qmwwzc9qx7gk8f9m0d5qhclq5rsudr0xu6agcqgnfdzqvnwsfrrdydSeen on
wss://nostr.momPublished at
2026-09-14 16:15:56 UTCEvent JSON
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"pubkey": "577de06dce160a0379163a4bb7b680be3e0a0e1c68de6e6ba8c01134b44064dd",
"created_at": 1789402556,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
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"Nostur",
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}