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> Part of the appeal of forth is making your own forth environment. That is the whole answer I think.

Then what? Or is that the whole hobby?



Well there's an active community of people writing their own operating systems. Why do that when Linux is available? I don't think a further reason is required for the hobbyist.

But there are various actual products which result from efforts to create a minimal forth that are interesting. One of my favorites is the J1 CPU: https://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html

Also I think many of these personal forths have explored interesting areas of programming language design, and when I have read about those which have been made public I often learn something new. It's like code poetry.


More like code tragedy


No need to shit on someone’s artistic work.


Code is a means to an end. If it’s shit at its job, I’m not going to say it’s “good art”




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