Another reason why there are so many handmade Forth implementations is because it is almost more educational and rewarding to write a forth than it is to use on

Another reason why there are so many handmade Forth implementations is because it is almost more educational and rewarding to write a forth than it is to use one. (For the reasons explored already upthread.) I like forth, I've implemented two, and yet the most I've done with it is write toy programs, and use it to script a host program a few times.