I love Forth, but for me it is not a viable programming language to do general purpose work in. It is not even particularly good in the niches it once served in

I love Forth, but for me it is not a viable programming language to do general purpose work in. It is not even particularly good in the niches it once served in either, such as in the embedded realm and memory constrained systems. Learning the language, and more importantly implementing my own Forth, has made me a better programmer, but I do not think I would ever use it professionally. It is quite a poor language for modern software development. The advantages of Forth are nearly never useful to a modern application, mobile or web developer. The advantages are; works well on a memory constrained system (think kilobytes not megabytes), it is good for writing assemblers and cross compilers for Forth (I think we can agree that most developers are not going to be porting a programming language to a new architecture in order to write a CRUD application), and poking hardware and hardware registers interactively which goes without saying - the vast majority of programmers will never do, only embedded and kernel developers on any regular basis. Instead it has many disadvantages like poor string handling, global state being the default and not the exception, poor support for structures (I know you can make your own but that does not make them good), and even worse memory safety than C. That is just that language itself, the ecosystem around it is just as bad, there are few libraries for generic functions, and it is most likely that they will require some kind of porting to the Forth you are using, there is a saying within the Forth community - "If you have seen one Forth, you have seen one Forth", they are different in quite fundamental ways. It just does not solve modern problems but ones that were relevant in the 1980s on microcomputers. The reason I like Forth is because I like reinventing the wheel, understanding how systems are implemented, and puzzles. I do not like Forth because it is good at getting things done.