they leverage off the c compiler to make it easily transportable and able to use different types, everything is a tradeoff and for the right circumstances this

they leverage off the c compiler to make it easily transportable and able to use different types, everything is a tradeoff and for the right circumstances this is an excellent one. No one says it has ot be assembler, more the point is it easily could be if you wanted, hence the bringing up of new systems/CPU's often using Forth, you bootstrap more quickly.