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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?
by bowsamic 4y ago
> 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?
- adastra22 4y agoWell 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 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.