This is, I guess, the uncomfortable secret about Forth :-). There's the community of Forth enthusiasts, who admire its simple, word-oriented concept, and the ea

This is, I guess, the uncomfortable secret about Forth :-). There's the community of Forth enthusiasts, who admire its simple, word-oriented concept, and the ease of implementation, and are super happy that you can put a working interpreter in 8K of flash and use it interactively (ok, I'm happy about that, too). And then there's everyone who has to write Forth code but is not a Forth enthusiast, and truth is we kindda hate it. I pained myself through writing something non-trivial in Forth and it was pretty awful. I kept hoping the enlightenment would finally hit me and whatnot but it didn't, and I haven't touched it ever since.