Since you can bootstrap it in assembly and then gradually build up from there, you don’t need a compiler. The only platform specific code is the little bit of a

Since you can bootstrap it in assembly and then gradually build up from there, you don’t need a compiler. The only platform specific code is the little bit of assembly used to get the most basic Forth words up and running, and then you can build everything with those building blocks, oftentimes on the target machine itself. In that regard, writing Forth feels like a combination of Lisp and assembly.